Please show me in Romans 14 ANYWHERE where it is talking about fasting or the word fasting is even used in that full context. He is writing primarily to Gentile believers in Rome.
I Pet 4:12-17 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
13But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings OF CHRIST, so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed.
14If you are insulted because of THE NAME OF CHRIST, you are BLESSED, for the Spirit of glory & of God rests on you.
15If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.
16However, if you SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN, do NOT be ashamed, but PRAISE GOD that you bear THAT NAME.
17For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Acts 5:19-32,41
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
20“Go, stand in the temple courts & tell the people the full message of THIS NEW LIFE."
21At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people...
22But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there...
25Then someone came in & announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”
26At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
27They brought them in & made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.
28“We gave you strict orders NOT TO TEACH IN THIS NAME,” he said. “Yet you have FILLED JERUSALEM with your teaching & are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
29But Peter & the other apostles replied, “We must OBEY GOD rather than men.
30THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS raised up JESUS, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince & Savior, in order to grant repentance & forgiveness of sins to Israel.
32We are witnesses of these things & SO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”..And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were COUNTED WORTHY TO SUFFER SHAME FOR HIS NAME.
Acts 4:5-12 The next day the rulers, elders & scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
6along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander & many others from the high priest’s family.
7They had Peter & John brought in & began to question them: “By what power or BY WHAT NAME DID YOU DO THIS?”
8Then Peter, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, said to them, “Rulers & elders of the people!
9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
10then let this be known TO ALL OF YOU & TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: It is by THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
11This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN TO MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED.”
Acts 11:26 And when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together WITH THE CHURCH and taught large numbers of people. The DISCIPLES were first called CHRISTIANS at Antioch.
Matt 28:16-20 Meanwhile, the eleven DISCIPLES went to Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had designated.
17When they saw Him, they WORSHIPED HIM, but some doubted.
18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven & on earth has been given to Me.
19Therefore go and MAKE DISCIPLES of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy Spirit,
20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
James 2:7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the NOBLE NAME by which YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED?
Acts 26:27-29 King Agrippa, do you BELIEVE THE PROPHETS? I know you do.” 28
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to BECOME A CHRISTIAN?” 29“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that NOT ONLY YOU ABUT ALL WHO HEAR ME this day MAY BECOME WHAT I AM, except for these chains.”