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[1]Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful thoughts.
[2]For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables.
[3]Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
[4]Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
[5]One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.
[6]He who regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he who does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
[7]For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
[8]For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
[9]For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
[10]But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you treat your brother as being of no account? For everyone shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
[11]For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
[12]So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.
[13]Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a snare in our brother's way.
[14]I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
[15]Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
[16]Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
[17]for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
[18]For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
[19]Therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things that build up one another.
[20]Do not bring to naught the work of God on account of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man whose eating causes a stumbling block.
[21]It is good not to eat flesh nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is enticed to sin or is made weak.
[22]Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
[23]But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not out of faith; for whatever is not out of faith is sin.
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