Romans 14:15-23 (New International Version)
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If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love.1 Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.2
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Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil.3
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For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,4 but of righteousness, peace5 and joy in the Holy Spirit,6
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because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.7
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Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace8 and to mutual edification.9
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Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.10 All food is clean,11 but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.12
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It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.13
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So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn14 himself by what he approves.
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But the man who has doubts15 is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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