Romans 14

¹And him that is weak in faith, take unto you; not in disputations of cogitations.

²For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

³Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

⁴Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own Lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

⁵For one judgeth between day and day; and another judgeth every day: let every one abound in his own sense.

⁶He that respecteth the day, respecteth to our Lord. And he that eateth, eateth to our Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to our Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to God.

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

⁸For whether we live, we live to our Lord; or whether we die, we die to our Lord. Therefore whether we live, or whether we die, we are our Lord's.

⁹For to this end Christ died and rose again; that he may have dominion both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why doest thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ.

¹¹For it is written: Live I, saith our Lord, that every knee shall bow to me; & every tongue shall confess to God.

¹²Therefore every one of us for himself shall render account to God.

¹³Let us therefore no more judge one another. But this judge ye rather, that you put not a stumbling block or a scandal to your brother.

¹⁴I know and am persuaded in our Lord Jesus Christ, that nothing is common of itself, but to him that supposeth any thing to be common, to him it is common.

¹⁵For if because of meat thy brother be grieved; now thou walkest not according to charity. Do not with thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not then our good be blasphemed.

¹⁷For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is acceptable to men.

¹⁹Therefore the things that are of peace let us pursue: and the things that are of edifying one toward another let us keep.

²⁰Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is ill for the man that eateth by giving offence.

²¹It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine, nor that wherein thy brother is offended, or scandalized, or weakened.

²²Hast thou faith? have it with thyself before God. Blessed is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.

²³But he that discerneth, if he eat, is damned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith, is sin.