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Romans 14 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Law of Liberty
The Law of Liberty and the Law of Love
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:3 - Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:4 - Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:5 - One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:6 - He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord;[fn] and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:7 - For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:9 - For to this end Christ died and rose[fn] and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:10 - But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:11 - For it is written:

As I live, says the LORD,
Every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall confess to God.”
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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:12 - So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:13 - Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
The Law of Love
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:14 - I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:15 - Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:16 - Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:17 - for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:18 - For he who serves Christ in these things[fn] is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:19 - Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:20 - Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:22 - Do you have faith?[fn] Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:23 - But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.[fn]
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text omits the rest of this sentence.
NU-Text omits and rose.
NU-Text reads of God.
Isaiah 45:23
NU-Text reads this.
NU-Text omits or is offended or is made weak.
NU-Text reads The faith which you have—have.
M-Text puts Romans 16:25–27 here.
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