Romans 14
1 Welcome the one who is weak in faith, without arguing over opinions.
2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the one who is weak eats vegetables.
3 The one who eats must not look down on the one who does not, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who does, for God has welcomed him.
4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? He stands or falls before his own master. And he will stand, because the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person considers one day more important than another; another considers all days alike. Each should be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 The one who observes the day observes it for the Lord. The one who eats eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and 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 of us 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 came to life: so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you too, why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
11 For it is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before me, and every tongue will confess to God.”
12 So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, decide this: not to put an obstacle or a trap in a brother’s way.
14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to the one who considers something unclean, it is unclean for him.
15 For if your brother is hurt because of food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
16 So do not let your good be slandered.
17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.
19 So then, let us pursue the things that make for peace and for building one another up.
20 Do not destroy God’s work for the sake of food. Everything is pure, but it is wrong for a person to eat in a way that causes someone to stumble.
21 It is good not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.
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 whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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