Romans 14:14–23

¹⁴I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean—to that one it is unclean; ¹⁵and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of, ¹⁷for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; ¹⁸for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men. ¹⁹So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another; ²⁰for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling. ²¹Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak. ²²Thou hast faith! to thyself have it before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve, ²³and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

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