14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus cthat nothing is unclean in itself, dbut it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, eyou are no longer walking in love. fBy what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.16 gSo do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. 17 hFor the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but iof righteousness and jpeace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 Whoever thus serves Christ is kacceptable to God and approved by men. 19 So then let us lpursue what makes for peace and for mmutual upbuilding.

20 nDo not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. oEverything is indeed clean,but pit is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. 21 qIt is good not toeat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. 8 For I tell you that Christ cbecame a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order dto confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, 9 and in orderethat the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, f“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.” 10 And again it is said, g“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.” 11 And again, h“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.” 12 And again Isaiah says, ij“The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; kin him will the Gentiles hope.” 13 May the God of hope fill you with all ljoy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Nebuchadnezzar Praises God 

4 Ch 3:31 in Aramaic

 3  How great are Da 4:2
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">phis signs, 

how mighty his Da 4:2
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">pwonders! 

Da 2:44
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">rHis kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 

Da 2:44
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">rand his dominion endures from generation to generation. 

Nebuchadnezzar’s Second Dream 

4 Ch 4:1 in Aramaic
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">2 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. 5 I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and Da 2:28 Da 7:15
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">sthe visions of my head alarmed me. 6 So Da 3:10
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">tI made a decree that Da 2:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">uall the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then Da 2:2
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">vthe magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but Da 4:18 Da 2:27 Da 5:8 Da 5:15
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">wthey could not make known to me its interpretation. 8 At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Da 1:7
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">xBelteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is Da 4:18 Da 2:11 Da 5:11 Ge 41:38 Is 63:14
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ythe spirit of the holy godsOr Spirit of the holy God; also verses 9, 18
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">3—and I told him the dream, saying, 9 “O Belteshazzar, Da 5:11 Da 2:48
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">zchief of the magicians, because I know that Da 4:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ythe spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no Da 2:18
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">amystery is too difficult for you, tell me Da 4:5
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">sthe visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation. 10 Da 4:5
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">sThe visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and Eze 31:3
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">bbehold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great. 11 Ps 37:35
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">cThe tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. 12 Eze 31:7
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">dIts leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. Eze 31:6
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">eThe beasts of the field found shade under it, and Eze 31:6
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ethe birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. 

13 “I saw in Da 4:5
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">sthe visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, Da 4:23
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">fa watcher, Dt 33:2 Zec 14:5 Jud 14
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ga holy one, came down from heaven. 14 He Da 3:4
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">hproclaimed aloud and said thus: Da 4:23 Mt 3:10 Lk 3:9
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">i‘Chop down the tree and Eze 31:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">jlop off its branches, Eze 31:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">jstrip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Eze 31:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">jLet the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches. 15 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. 16 Let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; Da 4:23 Da 4:25
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">kand let seven periods of time 1 Ch 29:30
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">lpass over him. 17 The sentence is by the decree of Da 4:13
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">fthe watchers, the decision by the word of Da 4:13
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">gthe holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High Da 4:25 Da 4:32 Da 5:21
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">mrules the kingdom of men Je 27:5
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">nand gives it to whom he will and 1 Sa 2:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">osets over it the lowliest of men.’ 18 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Da 1:7
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">pBelteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because Da 4:7 Da 5:8 Da 5:15 Ge 41:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">qall the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for Da 4:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">rthe spirit of the holy gods is in you.” 

Daniel Interprets the Second Dream 

19 Then Daniel, whose name was Da 4:18
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">pBelteshazzar, was Da 3:24
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">sdismayed for a while, and Da 5:6
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">this thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, 1 Sa 25:26 2 Sa 18:32
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">umay the dream be for those who hate you 1 Sa 25:26 2 Sa 18:32
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">uand its interpretation for your enemies! 20 Da 4:10 Da 4:11
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">vThe tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth, 21 Da 4:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">wwhose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived— 22 Eze 31:3
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">xit is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Je 27:6–8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">yYour greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, Je 27:6–8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">yand your dominion to the ends of the earth. 23 And because the king saw Da 4:13
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">za watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, Da 4:14 Da 4:15
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">a‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till Da 4:16
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">bseven periods of time pass over him,’ 24 this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, 25 Da 4:32 Da 4:33 Da 5:21
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">cthat you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made Ps 106:20
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">dto eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and Da 4:23
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">bseven periods of time shall pass over you, till Da 4:17 Da 4:32
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">eyou know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will. 26 And as it was commanded Da 4:15 Da 4:23
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">fto leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules. 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by Mt 6:1
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">gpracticing righteousness, Pr 16:6 Mt 25:35 Mt 25:36 Lk 11:41
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">hand your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, Je 18:8 Jon 3:10 Ac 8:22 2 Ti 2:25
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ithat there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.” 

Nebuchadnezzar’s Humiliation 

28 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30 and the king answered and said, Da 5:20
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">j“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by Da 4:36 Da 2:37
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">kmy mighty power as a royal residence and for Da 4:36 Da 2:37
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">kthe glory of my majesty?” 31 Da 5:5 Lk 12:20
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">lWhile the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, 32 Da 4:17 Da 4:25 Da 5:21
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">mand you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, Da 4:17 Da 4:25 Da 5:21
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">muntil you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.” 33 Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. Da 4:32
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">mHe was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws. 

Nebuchadnezzar Restored 

34 Da 4:26
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">nAt the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and Da 4:36
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">omy reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored Da 6:26 Da 12:7 Re 4:10
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">phim who lives forever, 

Ps 10:16 Da 2:44
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">qfor his dominion is an everlasting dominion, 

and Ps 10:16 Da 2:44
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">qhis kingdom endures from generation to generation; 

 35  Is 40:17
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">rall the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, 

and Ps 115:3 Heb 1:13 Heb 1:14
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">she does according to his will among the host of heaven 

and among the inhabitants of the earth; 

Is 14:27
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">tand none can stay his hand 

or Job 9:12 Is 45:9 Ro 9:20
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">usay to him, “What have you done?” 

36 At the same time Da 4:34
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">vmy reason returned to me, and for Da 4:30 Da 5:18
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">wthe glory of my kingdom, Da 4:30 Da 5:18
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">wmy majesty and splendor returned to me. Da 3:24 Da 6:7
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">xMy counselors and Da 5:1 Da 6:17
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ymy lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was Job 42:12 Mt 6:33
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">zadded to me. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, Da 4:34
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">apraise and extol and honor the Da 5:23
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">bKing of heaven, Dt 32:4 Ps 33:4 Re 15:3
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">cfor all his works are right and his ways are just; and Da 5:20 Pr 20:23
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">dthose who walk in pride he is able to humble.

13Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. 14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 15For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. 16So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. 19So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

20Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. 21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.c 22The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. 23But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.d

1As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own mastera that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11for it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,

12So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Fulfilling the Law Through Love 

8 Le 19:13 Pr 3:27 Pr 3:28

11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you 1 Co 15:34 Eph 5:14 1 Th 5:6
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">bto wake from sleep. Is 56:1 Lk 21:28
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">cFor salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 Jn 9:4
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">dThe night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us Col 3:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">ecast off Eph 5:11 Jn 3:20
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">fthe works of darkness and 2 Co 6:7 Eph 6:11 Eph 6:13 1 Th 5:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">gput on the armor of light. 13 1 Th 4:12
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">hLet us walk properly as in the daytime, Lk 21:34 Ga 5:21 1 Pe 4:3
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">inot in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, Jas 3:14 Jas 3:16
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">jnot in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But Ga 3:27 Job 29:14 Ps 132:9 Lk 24:49 Eph 4:24 Col 3:10
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">kput on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, Ga 5:16 1 Pe 2:11
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">lto gratify its desires.

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Submission to the Authorities 

13 Let every person Tt 3:1 1 Pe 2:13

Marks of the True Christian 

9 2 Co 6:6 1 Ti 1:5 1 Pe 1:22

14 Mt 5:44 1 Pe 3:9
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">eBless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 1 Co 12:26 Job 30:25 Heb 13:3
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">fRejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Ro 15:5 2 Co 13:11 Php 2:2 Php 4:2 1 Pe 3:8
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">gLive in harmony with one another. Ro 12:3 Ps 131:1 Je 45:5
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">hDo not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.Or give yourselves to humble tasks
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">8 Ro 11:25 Pr 3:7
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">iNever be wise in your own sight. 17 Pr 20:22 Mt 5:39 Ro 14:19
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">jRepay no one evil for evil, but 2 Co 8:21 Ro 14:16
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">kgive thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, Mk 9:50
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">llive peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, Pr 20:22 Mt 5:39 Ro 14:19
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">mnever avenge yourselves, but leave itGreek give place
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">9 to the wrath of God, for it is written, Heb 10:30 Dt 32:35 Ps 94:1 1 Th 4:6
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">n“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, Pr 25:21 Pr 25:22 Ex 23:4 Ex 23:5 2 Ki 6:22 Lk 6:27
" data-resourcename="esv" href="https://biblia.com/#" rel="popup">o“if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

A Living Sacrifice 

12 1 Co 1:10 2 Co 10:1 Eph 4:1