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13 Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore. But rather, determine to do this: that no one put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall, before his brother.

14 I know, and am persuaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. But to the one who judges something to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 But if your brother is distressed because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food someone for whom Christ died.

16 Therefore, do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

17 For the kingdom of God is not food nor drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

18 For whoever serves Christ in these things, is well-pleasing to God, and is approved by man.

19 Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and with which one may edify another.

20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed, all things are clean, but evil for the man who eats in offense.

21 It is not good to eat flesh or to drink wine, or to do anything whereby your brother stumbles, or is offended, or made weak.

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