| Chapter 14 |
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Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning. |
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One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs. |
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Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him. |
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Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand. |
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One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. |
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He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. |
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For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. |
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For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord`s. |
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For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living. |
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But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God. |
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For it is written, *I* live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God. |
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So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God. |
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Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother. |
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I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean. |
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For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died. |
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Let not then your good be evil spoken of; |
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for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. |
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For he that in this serves the Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men. |
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So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another. |
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For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so. |
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It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak. |
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Hast *thou* faith? have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he allows. |
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But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin. |