1. Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not for doubtful controversies.
2. For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats vegetables.
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 has received him.
4. Who are you who judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.
5. One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6. He that regards the day, regards it for the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
7. For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
8. For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord: whether we live therefore, or 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 living.
10. But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all 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 every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13. Let us not therefore judge one another any longer: but determine this rather, that no man put a stumbling block 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 of itself: but to him that esteems anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15. But if your brother is grieved with your food, now you are not walking in love. Do not destroy him with your food, for whom Christ died.
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 who in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved by men.
19. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may build another up.
20. Do not destroy the work of God over food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats and brings stumbling.
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 within yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in that thing which he allows.
23. And he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat in faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.