Romans 14:1-14

¹Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables.

²One man has faith to eat everything, while the weak one eats only vegetables.

³One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

⁴Who are you to judge someone else's household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And stand he will, for God has the power to make him stand.

⁵One man esteems one day above another; another esteems everyday alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

⁶He 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. And he who eats, eats to the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, also giving thanks to God.

⁷You see, none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

⁸Because if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

⁹For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living.

¹⁰But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

¹¹For it is written: “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’ ”

¹²So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

¹³Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother's way.

¹⁴I know and have been convinced by Sovereign Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean),