¹ HIM that is weak in faith take by the hand, and enter not into niceties of disputes.

² One man indeed thinketh he may eat all meats; another, who is weak, eateth vegetables.

³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not, and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath accepted him.

⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth; but he shall be established: for God is able to establish him.

⁵ One man judgeth one day different from another day: another judgeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

⁶ He that observeth a day, to the Lord he observeth it; and he that observeth not a day, to the Lord he doth not observe it. He that eateth, to the Lord he eateth, for he giveth thanks to God; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to God.

⁷ For no one of us liveth to himself, and no one dieth to himself.

⁸ For whether we live, to the Lord we live, and whether we die, to the Lord we die; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For to this end Christ both died, and rose again, and revived, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? And thou, why dost thou disparage thy brother? for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.

¹¹ For it is written, “As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall make confession to God¹.”

1. Isaiah, xlv. 23.

¹² Assuredly then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

¹³ Let us therefore no more judge one another; but judge this rather, that no one put a stumbling-block or offence before his brother.

¹⁴ I know, and am convinced by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who thinketh any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ But if by meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no more according to love. Do not by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Let not therefore food, which is good for you, give occasion of reproach.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ For he who in these things is the servant of Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

¹⁹ Well then, let us earnestly pursue the things that conduce to peace, and the things which are for mutual edification.

²⁰ For the sake of meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are clean; but it is an evil thing for a man to eat, giving offence.

²¹ It is laudable not to eat flesh, or to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother is stumbled, or scandalized, or weakened.

²² Hast thou faith, exercise it before God within thyself. Blessed is the man who condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

²³ But he that maketh a difference between meats, if he eat is condemned, because he doth it not by faith: for every thing which is not of faith, is sin.