Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
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- 1 Cor 11:29-31 : 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
- Rom 13:2 : 2 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
- Rom 14:5 : 5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
- 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
- Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
- Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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- Rom 14:20-223 verses82%
20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
- Rom 14:1-66 verses73%
1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; 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. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
- 1 Cor 8:7-104 verses73%
7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Cor 11:27-293 verses72%
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
- Rom 14:13-164 verses70%
13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
16 Then don't let your good be slandered,
- 1 Cor 10:27-293 verses70%
27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
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25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
- 1 Cor 8:12-132 verses68%
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
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6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
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3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
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7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
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17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
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14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
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18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
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17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
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19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
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9 about sin, because they don't believe in me;
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15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
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21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
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29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
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6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
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12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
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8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
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13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
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16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
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8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
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20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
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3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.