Romans 14:1-9 ▼

1 A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.

2 for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.

3 let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.

4 who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him.

5 one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike, let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind.

6 he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty, he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

7 for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

8 if we live, our life is appropriated to the Lord; and if we die, we die as his servants: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's.

9 for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.