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To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this-- not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. 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