¹ And receive him who is weak in the faith, but not to judgments of your thoughts.

² For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

³ Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

⁴ Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

⁵ One indeed esteems a day above another day; and another esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

⁶ He who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

⁸ For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

⁹ For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.

¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand 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 one of us will give account concerning himself to God.

¹³ Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing by itself is common; except to him who esteems anything to be common, it is common.

¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Then do not let your good be spoken evil of,

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 well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

¹⁹ So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

²⁰ Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, 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, the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.