Romans 14

¹Now receive the one who is weak in faith, but not for passing judgment on differing opinions.

²One has faith to eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables.

³The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God has received him.

⁴Who are you, you who are judging another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁵For one [indeed] judges one day above another day, and one judges every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

⁶The one who regards the day regards it to the Lord, and the one who does not regard the day, to the Lord does not regard it. And the one who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat, to the Lord does not eat, 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 came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

¹⁰But you, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also 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 will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.'

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

¹³Let us therefore no longer judge one another, but rather decide this: not to place a stumbling block or an occasion of falling before the brother.

¹⁴I know and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, except to the one who reckons something to be unclean — to that one it is unclean.

¹⁵For if your brother is grieved on account of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one with your food, for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not therefore your good be spoken of as evil.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸For the one who in this serves Christ is pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁹So then let us pursue the things that make for peace, and the things that make for the building up of one another.

²⁰Do not for the sake of food tear down the work of God. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the man who eats through a stumbling block.

²¹It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is caused to sin or is weakened.

²²The faith which you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself in what he approves.

²³But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.