1 Receive him who is weak in the faith, but not to pass judgment on his reasonings.
2 One believes that he may eat all things; but he who is weak eats herbs.
3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat; and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God received him.
4 Who are you to judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand; for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.
6 He who regards the day regards it to the Lord, and he who does not regard the day does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Whether, then, we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died and rose and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess to God."
12 So then each of us will give account concerning himself to God.
13 Let us, then, no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an occasion of falling in a brother's way.
14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is common of itself; except that to him who reckons anything to be common, to him it is common.
15 But if your brother is grieved 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 spoken of as evil.
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 in these things serves Christ is well-pleasing to God and approved by men.
19 So then let us pursue the things that make for peace and the things by which we may build up one another.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
21 It is good not to eat meat nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Keep it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.