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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11It is written: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.'" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. |
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