Romans 14:1-14

¹Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

²One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

³Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

⁴Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

⁵This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

⁶He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

⁷For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

⁸As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

⁹And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

¹¹For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

¹²So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

¹³Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

¹⁴I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.