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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 14 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Romans 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/13.htm" title="Romans 13">◄</a> Romans 14 <a href="../romans/15.htm" title="Romans 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/romans/14-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Law of Liberty<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/7.htm">Matthew 7:1–6</a>; <a href ="../luke/6.htm#37">Luke 6:37–42</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For Christ died and rose again for this purpose: that he might be the ruler of both the dead and the living.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And so, each one of us shall offer an explanation of himself to God.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Law of Love<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../ezekiel/14.htm">Ezekiel 14:1–11</a>; <a href ="../1_corinthians/8.htm">1 Corinthians 8:1–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are not now walking according to love. Do not allow your food to destroy him for whom Christ died. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore, what is good for us should not be a cause of blasphemy. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Do you have faith? It belongs to you, so hold it before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in that by which he is tested. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. 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