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Christian Liberty, Conscience, and Mutual Acceptance

Romans 14:1-15:13

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Chapter 14
1 Receive the one who is weak in the faith, not for debates over opinions. 2 One believes he may eat all things, but the weak one eats vegetables. 3 The one who eats should not despise the one who does not eat, but the one who does not eat should not judge the one who eats, for God has received him. 4 Who are you who judges another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One person judges one day above another; another judges every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who regards the day regards it to the Lord. And the one who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived, that he might rule over both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will confess to God." 12 Therefore each of us will give a word about himself. 13 Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but rather decide this: not to put a stumbling block or an occasion for falling in a brother's way. 14 I know and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is common in itself; except to the one considering something to be common, to that one it is common. 15 For if your brother is grieved because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what is good about you be blasphemed. 17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For the one serving Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men. 19 Therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things for edification of one another. 20 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with a stumbling block. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak. 22 You, keep the faith you have to yourself before God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. 23 But the one who is divided, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.
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Chapter 15
1 But we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for good, toward edification. 3 For even Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those reproaching you fell upon me." 4 For whatever things were written beforehand were written for our instruction, so that through the endurance and the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 But may the God of endurance and consolation give you to think the same thing toward one another according to Christ Jesus, 6 that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. 8 For I say that Christ has become a minister of circumcision for the sake of God's truth, to confirm the promises given to the fathers, 9 and the nations, on account of mercy, to glorify God; just as it is written, "On account of this I will confess to you among the nations, and to your name I will sing praise." 10 And again he says, "Rejoice, nations, with his people." 11 And again: "Praise the Lord, all you nations, and let all the peoples praise him." 12 And again Isaiah says: "There will be the root of Jesse, and the one rising to rule nations; on him nations will hope." 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.