Romans 14:4-6

Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another

4 p Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master 1 that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 q One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. r Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since s he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.

  1. Cross References
    James 4:12
    There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
  2. Cross References
    Galatians 4:10
    You observe days and months and seasons and years!
    Zechariah 7:5 - 6
    Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
  3. Cross References
    Romans 14:23
    But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 10:30 - 31
    If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
    1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
    Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
    Matthew 15:36
    He took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
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