e of food
destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is
evil for that man who eats with offense. (21)It is good neither to eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbles,
or is made to offend, or is weak. (22)Hast thou faith? Have it to
thyself before God. Happy is he that judges not himself in that which
he allows. (23)And he that doubts is condemned if he eat, because it
is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

XV.

NOW we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and
not to please ourselves. (2)Let each one of us please his neighbor,
for his good, to edification. (3)For also Christ pleased not himself;
but, as it is written: The reproaches of those who reproached thee,
fell on me. (4)For whatever things were written afore-time were for
our instruction, that we through patience and consolation of the
Scriptures may have hope. (5)And the God of patience and consolation
grant you to be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ
Jesus; (6)that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify God, the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(7)Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to
the glory of God. (8)For I say that Jesus Christ has been made a
minister of the circumcision, for the sake of God's truth, in order to
confirm the promises made to the fathers; (9)and that the Gentiles
should glorify God for his mercy; as it is written:

For this cause I will give thee praise among Gentiles.
And to thy name will sing.

(10)And again he says:

Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

(11)And again:

Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;
And extol him, all ye peoples.

(12)And again, Isaiah says:

There shall be the root of Jesse,
And he who rises up to rule the Gentiles;
On him will Gentiles hope.

(13)And the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

(14)And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also
to admonish one another. (15)But I wrote the more boldly to you,
brethren, in part as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is
given to me by God; (16)that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to
the Gentiles, ministering as a priest in the gospel of God, that the
offering up of the Gentiles may be accept