1 Now AActs 28:2; Rom 11:15; 14:3; 15:7accept the one who is BRom 14:2; 15:1; 1 Cor 8:9ff; 9:22weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. 2 ARom 14:14One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is BRom 14:1; 15:1; 1 Cor 8:9ff; 9:22weak eats vegetables only. 3 The one who eats is not to ALuke 18:9; Rom 14:10regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to BRom 14:10, 13; Col 2:16judge the one who eats, for God has CActs 28:2; Rom 11:15; 14:1; 15:7accepted him. 4 ARom 9:20; James 4:12Who are you to judge the 1Or house-servantservant of another? To his own 2Lit lordmaster he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 AGal 4:10One person 1Lit judgesregards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be BLuke 1:1; Rom 4:21; 14:23fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, 1Lit eatsdoes so for the Lord, for he AMatt 14:19; 15:36; 1 Cor 10:30; 1 Tim 4:3fgives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. 7 For not one of us ARom 8:38f; 2 Cor 5:15; Gal 2:20; Phil 1:20flives for himself, and not one dies for himself; 8 for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore ALuke 20:38; Phil 1:20; 1 Thess 5:10; Rev 14:13whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end ARev 1:18; 2:8Christ died and lived again, that He might be BMatt 28:18; John 12:24; Phil 2:11; 1 Thess 5:10Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you ALuke 18:9; Rom 14:3regard your brother with contempt? For BRom 2:16; 2 Cor 5:10we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written,

13 Therefore let us not AMatt 7:1; Rom 14:3judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—B1 Cor 8:13not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way. 14 I know and am convinced 1Lit throughin the Lord Jesus that AActs 10:15; Rom 14:2, 20nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who B1 Cor 8:7thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer AEph 5:2walking according to love. BRom 14:20; 1 Cor 8:11Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore A1 Cor 10:30; Titus 2:5do not let what is for you a good thing be 1Lit blasphemedspoken of as evil; 17 for the kingdom of God A1 Cor 8:8is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and BRom 15:13; Gal 5:22peace and BRom 15:13; Gal 5:22joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who in this way ARom 16:18serves Christ is B2 Cor 8:21; Phil 4:8; 1 Pet 2:12acceptable to God and approved by men. 19 So then 1Later mss read let us pursuewe APs 34:14; Rom 12:18; 1 Cor 7:15; 2 Tim 2:22; Heb 12:14pursue the things which make for peace and the BRom 15:2; 1 Cor 10:23; 14:3f, 26; 2 Cor 12:19; Eph 4:12, 29building up of one another. 20 ARom 14:15Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. BActs 10:15; Rom 14:2, 14All things indeed are clean, but C1 Cor 8:9-12they are evil for the man who eats 1Lit with offenseand gives offense. 21 A1 Cor 8:13It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles. 22 The faith which you have, have 1Lit according to yourselfas your own conviction before God. Happy is he who A1 John 3:21does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But ARom 14:5he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.