1 Welcome the one who is weak in faith, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2 One person believes he may eat everything, while the weak person eats vegetables. 3 The 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 welcomed him. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s household servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 One person regards one day above another; another regards every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day observes it for the Lord. And the one who eats does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. The one who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

7 For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself. 8 For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this is why Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge God.” 12 So each of us will give an account of himself.

13 Therefore let us no longer judge one another. Instead, decide not to put a stumbling block or an obstacle in a brother’s way. 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But for the one who considers something unclean, for him it is unclean. 15 For if your brother is grieved because of food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food the one for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what is good for you 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 the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people. 19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building one another up. 20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things are clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat in a way that causes stumbling. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles or is caused to fall or is weakened. 22 Keep the faith you have to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith. And whatever is not from faith is sin.