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Romans 14
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1 Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.
5 For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.
6 He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.
7 For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. CCC
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. CCC · Fathers
10 But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Fathers
11 For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God. Fathers
12 Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself. Fathers
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother’s way.
14 I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Fathers
16 Let not then our good be evil spoken of.
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. CCC
18 For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.
19 Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.
20 Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak. CCC
22 Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.
23 But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.
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- CCC 953 “Communion in charity. In the sanctorum communio, "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself." "If one…”
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- CCC 668 “Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living." Christ's Ascension into heaven…”
“… hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved." And he renders the reason why the Son of God did these things, saying, "For to this end Christ both lived, and died, and revived, that He might rule over the living and the dead.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us, we ought also ourselves to forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God, and "we must all appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, and must every one give an account of himself.”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us, we ought also ourselves to forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God, and "we must all appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, and must every one give an account of himself.”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“If then we entreat the Lord to forgive us, we ought also ourselves to forgive; for we are before the eyes of our Lord and God, and "we must all appear at the judgment-seat of Christ, and must every one give an account of himself.”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“… the resurrection of the dead." And everywhere, when [referring to] the passion of our Lord, and to His human nature, and His subjection to death, he employs the name of Christ, as in that passage: "Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2819 “The kingdom of God (is) righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." The end-time in which we live is the…”
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- CCC 1789 “Some rules apply in every case: - One may never do evil so that good may result from it; - the Golden…”
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