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Romans 14:1-23

Righteousness, Peace, and Joy

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Righteousness, Peace, and Joy

Romans 14:1-23

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This song belongs to the Romans collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Romans
Collection
Romans
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Electronic
[Verse 1] One eats freely, one chooses the herbs; one keeps a day, one treats days alike. Who are we to despise a servant God holds? Each gives thanks beneath the same light. [Chorus] The kingdom is not the cup or the plate; not victory won in a doubtful debate. Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Spirit, receive one another, and let the world hear it. [Verse 2] None of us lives to himself alone, none of us dies outside of the Lord. Christ died and rose to be Lord of us all; why turn a brother's path into court? [Bridge] I will not set a stone where you walk. I will not make you fall for my freedom. If food brings grief to the one Christ redeemed, love will surrender what pride would keep. [Verse 3] Follow the things that make for peace, build up the work that God began. Blessed is the heart that does not condemn itself in the choices held in its hand. [Refrain - final] The kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy; not brother against sister, not strong against frail. Before the one Lord every knee will bow. Receive one another. Receive one another now.

About the passage

Romans 14: A brother is not a dietary problem

Romans 14 treats disagreement over food and days as a test of whether believers understand who owns the people on both sides of the dispute. The weak are to be received without turning welcome into an interrogation of disputed opinions. Paul identifies different temptations for each side: the eater despises, while the abstainer judges. Both are corrected by the fact that God has received the other person. Christ's lordship over living and dying then removes the fantasy that one believer occupies another's judgment seat. Paul himself is persuaded that food is not unclean in itself, but he gives the confident party a heavier responsibility. A correct theory of food does not make every exercise of liberty loving. Peace, edification, conscience, and the welfare of the person "for whom Christ died" matter more than displaying freedom at the table. The moral question is not only what may be eaten, but what the eating does to a brother.

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