Romans 14

1 But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

2 For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

3 He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

5 For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

6 He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

7 For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.

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

8 For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

9 For Christ died and rose again for this purpose: that he might be the ruler of both the dead and the living.

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

10 So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, 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, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

12 And so, each one of us shall offer an explanation of himself to God.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

13 Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

14 I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 For if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are not now walking according to love. Do not allow your food to destroy him for whom Christ died.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

16 Therefore, what is good for us should not be a cause of blasphemy.

Then don’t let your good be slandered,

17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18 For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

19 And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

20 Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

21 It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

22 Do you have faith? It belongs to you, so hold it before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in that by which he is tested.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

23 But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.