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Version 0.94.54, 23 October 2023

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Romans Chapter 14

1Receive him who is weak in faith, but not by getting involved in arbitrating in arguments. 2One person believes in eating everything; another who is weak eats vegetables. 3Let him who eats something not despise him who does not eat it, nor he who does not eat something judge him who does eat it. For God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge another person's servant? He stands or falls serving his own master. But he will be upheld, for God is able to uphold him. 5One person judges one day against another, while another judges each day. Let each one be completely sure in his own mind. 6He who considers the day considers it to the honour of the Lord, and he who ignores the day ignores it to the honour of the Lord. And he who eats something, eats it to the honour of the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who refrains from eating something refrains from eating it also to the honour of the Lord, and he gives God thanks. 7For none of us lives for himself, and no-one dies for himself. 8For if we live, we live to the Lord, or if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 9For it is for this reason that Christ both died and rose and came to life: in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10And why do you judge your brother? Or again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand at Christ's court. 11For it stands written:

“ ‘As I live’, says the Lord,

‘To me every knee shall bow,

And every tongue will confess to God.’ ”

12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. 13So let us no longer judge each other, but judge this rather: not to put a stumbling block or a cause of offence in your brother's way. 14I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is profane of itself, except that to anyone who considers something to be profane, to him it is profane. 15And if your brother grieves on account of food, you no longer walk lovingly. Do not by your food lose him for whom Christ died. 16So do not let your good behaviour be slandered, 17for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy by holy spirit. 18For he who serves Christ in these matters is pleasing to God and approved of by men. 19So then, let us pursue the things that pertain to peace and to each other's edification. 20Do not undo the work for God on account of food. All things are clean, but it is wrong for the man who eats with offence to do so. 21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to consume anything at which your brother stumbles or is offended or falters. 22Do you have faith? Have it as your own in God's sight. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he approves of. 23But he who is in two minds stands condemned if he eats like that, because it is not based on faith. Indeed everything that is not based on faith is a sin. 24To him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the proclaiming of Jesus Christ by revelation of a mystery, kept silent in past durations of the ages, 25but which is now made manifest, through prophetic scriptures on command of age-abiding God, for obedience to faith, having been made known to all the nations, 26to God the only wise one, through Jesus Christ, to him be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

● The last three verses above are at the end of Romans 16 in the AV and many editions.

Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.11 ↔ Isaiah 45:23.

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