14:1And take up the one who is weak in faith, not in disputes about opinions. 14:2For one believes that he may eat all things: but let him who is weak eat vegetables. 14:3Let him who eats not despise him who does not eat: and let him who does not eat not judge him who eats: for God has taken him up. 14:4Who are you, who judge another's servant? 14:4To his own master he stands, or falls: but he will stand: for God is able to make him stand. 14:5For one judges a day between day and day: but another judges every day alike: let each one abound in his own mind.
14:6He who minds the day, minds it for the Lord, and he who eats, eats for the Lord: for he gives thanks to God. 14:6And he who does not eat, for the Lord does not eat, and gives thanks to God. 14:7For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself. 14:8For whether we live, we live for the Lord: or whether we die, we die for the Lord. 14:8Whether therefore we live, or die, we are the Lord's. 14:9For to this end Christ died, and rose again: so that he might be lord of both the dead and the living. 14:10But you, why do you judge your brother?
14:10Or you, why do you despise your brother? 14:10For we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ. 14:11For it has been written: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me: and every tongue shall confess to God." 14:12And so each one of us will render an account for himself to God. 14:13Therefore let us no longer judge one another: but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block before your brother, or an occasion of falling. 14:14I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is common through itself, except that to him who reckons something to be common, to him it is common.
14:15For if on account of food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking according to love. 14:15Do not by your food destroy him, for whom Christ died. 14:16Therefore let our good not be blasphemed. 14:17For the kingdom of God is not food and drink: but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit: for he who in this serves Christ, pleases God, and is approved by men. 14:19And so let us pursue the things which are of peace: and let us keep towards one another the things which are of building up. 14:20Do not on account of food destroy the work of God; all things indeed are clean: but it is evil for the man who eats through a stumbling block.
14:21It is good not to eat meat, and not to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is made to fall, or is weakened. 14:22Do you have faith? 14:22Have it in yourself before God. 14:22Blessed is he who does not judge himself in that which he approves. 14:23But he who distinguishes, if he has eaten, has been condemned: because it is not from faith. 14:23And everything which is not from faith is sin.