1ACCEPT anyone who is weak in faith without debate about his misgivings.
2For instance, one person may have faith strong enough to eat all kinds of food, while another who is weaker eats only vegetables.
3Those who eat meat must not look down on those who do not, and those who do not eat meat must not pass judgement on those who do; for God has accepted them.
4Who are you to pass judgement on someone else's servant? Whether he stands or falls is his own Master's business; and stand he will, because his Master has power to enable him to stand.
5Again, some make a distinction between this day and that; others regard all days alike. Everyone must act on his own convictions.
6Those who honour the day honour the Lord, and those who eat meat also honour the Lord, since when they eat they give thanks to God; and those who abstain have the Lord in mind when abstaining, since they too give thanks to God.
7For none of us lives, and equally none of us dies, for himself alone.
8If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9This is why Christ died and lived again, to establish his lordship over both dead and living.
10You, then, why do you pass judgement on your fellow-Christian? And you, why do you look down on your fellow-Christian? We shall all stand before God's tribunal;
11for we read in scripture, “As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow and every tongue acknowledge God.”
12So, you see, each of us will be answerable to God.
13Let us therefore cease judging one another, but rather make up our minds to place no obstacle or stumbling block in a fellow-Christian's way.
14All that I know of the Lord Jesus convinces me that nothing is impure in itself; only, if anyone considers something impure, then for him it is impure.
15If your fellow-Christian is outraged by what you eat, then you are no longer guided by love. Do not by your eating be the ruin of one for whom Christ died!
16You must not let what you think good be brought into disrepute;
17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but justice, peace, and joy, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
18Everyone who shows himself a servant of Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19Let us, then, pursue the things that make for peace and build up the common life.
20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Everything is pure in itself, but it is wrong to eat if by eating you cause another to stumble.
21It is right to abstain from eating meat or drinking wine or from anything else which causes a fellow-Christian to stumble.
22If you have some firm conviction, keep it between yourself and God. Anyone who can make his decision without misgivings is fortunate.
23But anyone who has misgivings and yet eats is guilty, because his action does not arise from conviction, and anything which does not arise from conviction is sin.
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