Chapter 14

But him who is weak in faith, receive without disputes about opinions.

For one believes that he may eat all things; but he who is weak, let him eat vegetables.

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 has received him.

Who art thou to judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls; but he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

For one esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let everyone be convinced in his own mind.

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

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself;

for if we live, we live to the Lord, or if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

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

But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand at the judgment-seat of God;

for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall give praise to God." Charity and Peace

Therefore every one of us will render an account for himself to God.

Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but rather judge this, that you should not put a stumbling-block or a hindrance in your brother's way.

I know and am confident in the Lord Jesus that nothing is of itself unclean; but to him who regards anything as unclean, to him it is unclean.

If, then, thy brother is grieved because of thy food, no longer dost thou walk according to charity. Do not with thy food destroy him for whom Christ died.

Let not, then, our good be reviled.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in food and drink, but in justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;

for he who in this way serves Christ pleases God and is approved by men.

Let us, then, follow after the things that make for peace, and let us safeguard the things that make for mutual edification.

Do not for the sake of food destroy the work of God! All things indeed are clean; but a thing is evil for the man who eats through scandal.

It is good not to eat meat and not to drink wine, nor to do anything by which thy brother is offended or scandalized or weakened.

Thou hast faith. Keep it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

But he who hesitates, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not from faith; for all that is not from faith is sin.