¹ Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

² One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

³ Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat. Do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

⁴ Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for the Lord¹ has power to make him stand.

1. NU P. M TR Vg read "God" instead of "the Lord"

⁵ One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

⁶ He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord.¹ He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

1. NU Vg. M TR add "and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it"

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

⁹ For to this end Christ died,¹ and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

1. M TR add "rose"

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God¹.

1. NU Vg. M TR read "Christ" instead of "God"

¹¹ For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"¹

1. Isaiah 45:23

¹² So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

¹³ Therefore let us not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

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

¹⁵ Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Then do not let your good be slandered,

¹⁷ for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁹ So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

²⁰ Do not overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

²¹ It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles¹.

1. NU P. M TR add "is offended or is made weak"

²² Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not judge himself in that which he approves.

²³ But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.