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Kehilah In Rome 14:1-9 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

1. But welcome the one who is weak in emunah (faith). But not for the purpose of setting him straight in arguments.

2. For example, one person has emunah (faith) to eat every potential food; but the weak practice vegetarianism.

3. Let the one who eats not hold in contempt or despise the one who does not eat, and let not the one who does not eat pass judgment on the one who eats, for Hashem treats him as an oreach ratzuy (welcome guest).

4. Who are you to condemn the eved (house slave) of someone else? In relation to Ribbono (shel Olam) he stands or falls. And he shall stand, for Ribbono (shel Olam) is able to make him stand.

5. One person judges one day to be more important than another; another person judges every day to be alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

6. The one who holds an opinion on the day does so to Hashem. And the one who eats does so to Hashem, for he does the bentshen (custom of saying grace after meals) of the Birkat Hamazon to Hashem. And the one who does not eat does so to Hashem and gives the hodayah (thanksgiving) to Hashem.

7. For no one of us lives for himself and no one dies for himself.

8. For if we live, we live for Hashem; and if we die, we die for Hashem. So whether we live or we die, we belong to Hashem.

9. For it was for this tachlis (purpose) that Moshiach had his histalkus and came to live again, in order that he might have charge as Moshiach Adoneinu over both the Mesim (dead ones) and the Chayyim (living ones).

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