And receive the one being weak in faith, not for disputes over opinions. 2 One person believes to eat all things, while the one being weak eats vegetables. 3 Let the one eating not despise the one not eating, and let the one not eating not pass judgment on the one eating, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge the house-servant of another? By his own lord he stands or falls; and he will be made to stand, for the lord is able to make him stand.
5 [For] one person judges a day beside another, and another person judges every day; let each be fully assured in his own mind. 6 The one thinking the day thinks to the Lord; and the one eating eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating does not to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself and none dies to himself. 8 For if we should live, we live to the Lord; if we should die, we die to the Lord. Whether then we should live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived, so that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living.
10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or indeed why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee and every tongue shall confess to/praise God. 12 So then each of us concerning himself will give account [to God].
13 Therefore let us no longer pass judgment on one another; but rather judge this—not to put a stumbling block or offence for a brother. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is common in itself, except for the one thinking it to be common, to him it is common. 15 For if because of food your brother is pained, you no longer walk according to love; do not by your food destroy that one for whose sake Christ died. 16 So let not your good thing be slandered. 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; 18 for the one serving the Christ in this is acceptable to God and approved by men. 19 So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things of building up one another.
20 Do not for the sake of food destroy the work of God. All things indeed are clean, but it is bad for the person eating for the sake of a stumbling block. 21 It is good not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor by which your brother stumbles. 22 The faith [which] you have have according to yourself before God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. 23 But the one doubting is condemned if he eats, because not from faith; and everything not from faith is sin.
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