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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.
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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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