Romans 14:1WEB
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
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Romans 14:1WEB
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
Romans 14:2WEB
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Romans 14:3WEB
Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Romans 14:4WEB
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
Romans 14:5WEB
One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
Romans 14:6WEB
He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.
Romans 14:7WEB
For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Romans 14:8WEB
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14:9WEB
For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Romans 14:10WEB
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Romans 14:11WEB
For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”
Romans 14:12WEB
So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
Romans 14:13WEB
Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
Romans 14:14WEB
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:15WEB
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:16WEB
Then don’t let your good be slandered,
Romans 14:17WEB
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:18WEB
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Romans 14:19WEB
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
Romans 14:20WEB
Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
Romans 14:21WEB
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Romans 14:22WEB
Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.
Romans 14:23WEB
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Romans 14:24WEB
Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,
Romans 14:25WEB
but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
Romans 14:26WEB
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.