Romans 14

¹Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on [his] opinions.

²For one [person] has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats [only] vegetables.

³The [one who] eats [everything] must not belittle the [one who] [does not], and the [one who] does not eat [everything] must not judge the [one who] [does], for God has accepted him.

⁴Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To [his] own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁵One [person] regards [a certain] day above [the others], while someone [else] considers every day [alike]. Each [one] should be fully convinced in [his] own mind.

⁶He who observes [a special] day [does so] to [the] Lord; he who eats [does so] to [the] Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains [does so] to [the] Lord and gives thanks to God.

⁷For none of us lives to himself [alone], and none [ of us ] dies to himself [alone].

⁸If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live [or] die, we belong to the Lord.

⁹For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both [the] dead and [the] living.

¹⁰Why, then, {do} you judge your brother? Or why {do} you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

¹¹It is written: “[As surely as] I live, says [the] Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

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

¹³Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put [any] stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

¹⁴I am convinced and fully persuaded in [the] Lord Jesus that nothing [is] unclean in itself. But if [anyone] regards something as unclean, [then] for him [it is] unclean.

¹⁵If your brother is distressed by [what you eat], you are no longer acting in love. {Do} not by [your eating] destroy your [brother], for whom Christ died.

¹⁶{Do} not {allow} what you [consider] good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

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

¹⁸For whoever serves Christ in this way [is] pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁹So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

²⁰{Do} not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All [food is] clean, but [it is] wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

²¹[It is] better not to eat meat [or] drink wine [or to do anything] [to cause] your brother to stumble.

²²Keep your belief [about such matters] between yourself [and] God. Blessed [is] the [one who] does not condemn himself by what he approves.

²³But the [one who] has doubts is condemned if he eats, because [his eating is] not from faith; and everything that [is] not from faith is sin.