Popular Bible Verses from ROM 14

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For the kingdom of God—what truly matters in God's rule and realm—is not a matter of eating and drinking, but rather consists of righteousness, peace, and joy that come through the Holy Spirit's work. For the person who serves Christ in this way—pursuing righteousness, peace, and joy rather than insisting on personal freedom—is acceptable to God and gains approval from other people.

For if we live, we live to the Lord and for His glory, and if we die, we die to the Lord and for His purposes. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord as His possession.

So then, let us eagerly pursue the things which make for peace, harmony, and mutual understanding, and the things which contribute to the building up of one another.

Therefore, let us no longer judge and condemn one another in these disputable matters, but instead make this judgment and resolution: not to put a stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister that would cause them to fall into sin.

For it stands written in Scripture: "As surely as I live, declares the Lord, every knee will bow down before Me in acknowledgment, and every tongue will confess and give praise to God."* So then, each one of us will give a personal account and answer for himself to God concerning his own life and actions.

Now receive into your fellowship the person who is weak in faith—whose conscience is overly scrupulous about matters of Christian freedom—but not for the purpose of quarrelling over and passing judgment on disputable matters and opinions where Scripture is not explicit.

Who are you to judge and pass a verdict on another person's household servant who belongs to someone else? To his own master alone he stands approved or falls in condemnation. And he will stand approved, for the Lord his Master is powerful enough to make him stand.