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[1]But to him who is weak in the faith give the hand, and be not divided in your thoughts.
[2]For there are some who believe that one may eat every thing, and he who is weak; eateth [only] the herb.
[3]But let not him who eateth despise him who eateth not; and he who eateth not, let him not judge him who eateth; for Aloha hath received him.
[4]Who art thou that judgest a servant who is not thine? who, if he stand, unto his Lord he standeth, and if he fall, falleth unto his Lord. But standing, he standeth; for there is power in the hands of his Lord to make him stand.
[5]There is who distinguishethⓘ day from day, and there is who judgeth all days [to be alike]; but let every man in the convictionⓘ of his [own] mind be confirmed.
[6]He who thinketh of the day, to his Lord he thinketh; and every one who thinketh not of the day, unto his Lord he thinketh not [of it]. He who eateth, to his Lord he eateth, and to Aloha giveth thanks; and he who eateth not, to his Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to Aloha.
[7]For there is no one of us who to himself liveth and no one who to himself dieth.
[8]For if we live, to our Lord we live; and if we die, to our Lord we die: and if we live, then, or if we die, our Lord's are we.
[9]Because of this also the Meshiha died and lived and arose, that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living.
[10]But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Or thou, also, why despisest thou thy brother? For we shall all stand before the tribunal of the Meshiha:
[11]As it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, unto me every knee shall bow, and to me shall every tongue confess.
[12]Therefore, every one of us the answer for himself shall give unto Aloha.
[13]Then judge not one another, but this determineⓘ rather, to lay not a stumbling-block for thy brother.
[14]For I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jeshu, that a thing which is unclean from itself is not [so]; but to him who judgeth of any thing that it is polluted, to him only it is polluted.
[15]But if on account of meat thou grievest thy brother, thou walkest not in love: destroy not by thy meat him on account of whom the Meshiha died.
[16]Let not our goodⓘ [things] be blasphemed.
[17]For the kingdom of Aloha is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Spirit of Holiness.
[18]For who in these things serveth the Meshiha pleaseth Aloha, and before men is approved.
[19]Now, after peace let us pursue,ⓘ and after the edification of one another,
[20]And not for the sake of meats undo the work of Aloha. For each thing is pure, yet evil is it to the man who eateth with offence.
[21]It is well not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which our brother is offended.
[22]Hast thou confidence? In thyself retain it before Aloha. Blessed is he who condemnethⓘ not himself in what he distinguisheth.
[23]For he who doubteth and eateth is made guilty, because he eateth not with confidence. For every thing that is not of confidence is sin.
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