Micah 6:9-16

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Israel’s Guilt and Punishment

⁹Listen! The Lord is calling to the city—
    and to fear your name is wisdom—
    “Heed the rod^(A) and the One who appointed it.^[a]
¹⁰Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house,
    and the short ephah,^[b] which is accursed?^(B)
¹¹Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,^(C)
    with a bag of false weights?^(D)
¹²Your rich people are violent;^(E)
    your inhabitants are liars^(F)
    and their tongues speak deceitfully.^(G)
¹³Therefore, I have begun to destroy^(H) you,
    to ruin^[c] you because of your sins.
¹⁴You will eat but not be satisfied;^(I)
    your stomach will still be empty.^[d]
You will store up but save nothing,^(J)
    because what you save^[e] I will give to the sword.
¹⁵You will plant but not harvest;^(K)
    you will press olives but not use the oil,
    you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.^(L)
¹⁶You have observed the statutes of Omri^(M)
    and all the practices of Ahab’s^(N) house;
    you have followed their traditions.^(O)
Therefore I will give you over to ruin^(P)
    and your people to derision;
    you will bear the scorn^(Q) of the nations.^[f]”

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Footnotes

Micah 6:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Micah 6:10 An ephah was a dry measure.
Micah 6:13 Or Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin
Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth
Micah 6:16 Septuagint; Hebrew scorn due my people

Romans 14:1-9

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The Weak and the Strong

14 Accept the one whose faith is weak,^(A) without quarreling over disputable matters. ²One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.^(B) ³The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt^(C) the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge^(D) the one who does, for God has accepted them. ⁴Who are you to judge someone else’s servant?^(E) To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

⁵One person considers one day more sacred than another;^(F) another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. ⁶Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God;^(G) and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷For none of us lives for ourselves alone,^(H) and none of us dies for ourselves alone. ⁸If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.^(I) ⁹For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life^(J) so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.^(K)