For one believes he (A)may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.(A)

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For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

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For everything God created is good,(A) and nothing is to be rejected(B) if it is received with thanksgiving,

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22 [a]Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. (A)Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for (B)whatever is not from faith is [b]sin.

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  1. Romans 14:22 NU The faith which you have—have
  2. Romans 14:23 M puts Rom. 16:25–27 here.

22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn(A) himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts(B) is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.[a]

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  1. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

The Law of Love

14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus (A)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)

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17 (A)Better is a dinner of [a]herbs where love is,
Than a fatted calf with hatred.

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  1. Proverbs 15:17 Or vegetables

17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.(A)

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Do not be carried [a]about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

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  1. Hebrews 13:9 NU, M away

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.(A) It is good for our hearts to be strengthened(B) by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods,(C) which is of no benefit to those who do so.(D)

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12 for before certain men came from James, (A)he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing [a]those who were of the circumcision.

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  1. Galatians 2:12 Jewish Christians

12 For before certain men came from James,(A) he used to eat with the Gentiles.(B) But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.(C)

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(A)Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you (B)all things, even as the (C)green herbs.

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Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(A) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(B)

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10 concerned only with (A)foods and drinks, (B)various [a]washings, (C)and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

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  1. Hebrews 9:10 Lit. baptisms

10 They are only a matter of food(A) and drink(B) and various ceremonial washings(C)—external regulations(D) applying until the time of the new order.

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15 (A)To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

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15 To the pure, all things are pure,(A) but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.(B) In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.(C)

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25 (A)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake;

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25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,(A)

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12 “Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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12 “Please test(A) your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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16 Thus [a]the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

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  1. Daniel 1:16 Or Melzar

16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.(A)

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