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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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:7 - For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

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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.

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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.

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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]

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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.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:12 - So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:16 - Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:18 - For he who serves Christ in these things[fn] is acceptable to God and approved by men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:19 - Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.

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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.

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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]

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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.

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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.
NKJV

New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

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