Today's Bible Passage is "
Romans 14:1-23
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The
Weak and the Strong
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without
passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to
eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only
vegetables. 3The man who eats everything must not look down on him who
does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the
man who does, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge someone
else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will
stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5One man considers one day more sacred
than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be
fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special,
does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives
thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives
thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us
dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die,
we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9For this very reason, Christ died and
returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the
living. 10You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look
down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.
11It is written:
" 'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,
'every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will
confess to God.' "
12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13Therefore let us stop passing judgment
on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling
block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord
Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food[b] is unclean in itself. But
if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no
longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for
whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of
as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and
drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and
approved by men.
19Let us therefore make every effort to
do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20Do not destroy the
work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong
for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is
better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will
cause your brother to fall.
22So whatever you believe about these
things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not
condemn himself by what he approves. 23But the man who has doubts is
condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and
everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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