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7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For both if we should live, we live to the Lord, and if we should die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we should live and if we should die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For unto this Christ died and lived again, so that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why also do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it has been written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God.” 12 So then, each of us will give account concerning himself to God. 13 May we no longer, therefore, judge one another; but rather you? decide this, not to put a stumbling block or obstacle before a brother. 14 I know and I am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him reckoning anything to be unclean, to that one it is unclean. 15 For if because of food your brother is grieved, no longer do you walk according to love. Do not destroy with your food that one for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let your? good be spoken of as evil. 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 in this is well-pleasing to God and approved by men. 19 So then, may we pursue the things of peace, and the things of building up one another. 20 Do not demolish the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man eating through a stumbling block. 21 It is good neither to eat meat nor to drink wine nor anything in which your brother stumbles. 22 The faith that you have, have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. 23 But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and everything that is not of faith is sin. Romans 14:7-23, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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