¹ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.¹

1. not...: or, not to judge his doubtful thoughts

² For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him who eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. And, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.

⁵ One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike . Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.¹

1. fully persuaded: or, fully assured

⁶ He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it . He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.¹

1. regardeth: or, observeth

⁷ For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

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

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

¹⁰ But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou show contempt for thy brother? for we shall all stand 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 confess to God.

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

¹³ Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean by itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.¹

1. unclean: Gr. common

¹⁵ But if thy brother is grieved with thy food, now walkest thou not in love. Destroy not him with thy food, for whom Christ died.¹

1. charitably: Gr. according to charity

¹⁶ Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

¹⁹ Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things which one may edify another.

²⁰ For the sake of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

²² Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in what he approveth.

²³ And he that doubteth is condemned if he eateth, because he eateth not from faith: for whatever is not from faith is sin.¹²

1. doubteth: or, discerneth and putteth a difference between meats
2. damned: or, condemned, or liable to punishment