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title: "Commentary on Romans"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 89 of 91
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-romans/89/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Romans, section 89. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-romans/89/"
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# Commentary on Romans

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin's first New Testament commentary, dedicated to Simon Grynaeus.

## 89. Chapter 14

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-romans/89/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-romans/89/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Now him who is weak in faith receiver not for the debatings of questions.

[¶1] 2 Let him indeed who believes eat everything; but he who is weak, eats herbs.

[¶2] 3 Let not him who eats, despise him who abstains; and let not him who abstains, condemn him who eats, since God has received him.

[¶3] 4 Who art thou who judgest the servant of another? to his own Lord he stands or falls: he shall indeed stand, for God is able to make him stand.

[¶4] 5 One indeed esteems a day above a day; but another esteems every day alike: let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind.

[¶5] 6 He who regards a day, regards it for the Lord; and he who regards not a day, regards it not for the Lord: he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, abstains for the Lord, and gives thanks to God;

[¶6] 7 For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself;

[¶7] 8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord; whether then we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

[¶8] 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose and lived again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

[¶9] 10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or also thou why dost thou despise thy brother? for we must all stand before the tribunal of Christ;

[¶10] 11 For it is written, “Live do I, saith the Lord; to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

[¶11] 12 Every one of us then shall give an account of himself to God.

[¶12] 13 Let us therefore no more judge one another; but rather judge this, that no occasion of falling or an offense be given to a brother.

[¶13] 14 I know and am persuaded, that in the Lord Jesus nothing is in itself unclean: but he who regards anything unclean, to him it is unclean.

[¶14] 15 But if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest consistently with love: by thy meat destroy not him for whom Christ died.

[¶15] 16 Let not then your good be subject to the evil-speaking of men.

[¶16] 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy through the Holy Spirit.

[¶17] 18 For he who in these things serves Christ, is acceptable to God and approved by men.

[¶18] 19 Let us then follow the things of peace and of mutual edification:

[¶19] 20 On account of meat destroy not the work of God. All things are indeed pure; but evil it is for man to eat with offense.

[¶20] 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything, by which thy brother may fall, or be offended, or be weakened.

[¶21] 22 Hast thou faith? Have it for thyself before God: happy is he who condemns not himself in that which he examines

[¶22] 23 But he who is undecided, if he eat, is condemned; for he eats not in faith: and whatsoever is not from faith is sin.