Romans 14:11-17

¹¹For scripture says — ‘“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.”’

¹²So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.

¹³Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve — never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in the way of a fellow follower of the Lord.

¹⁴Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is defiling in itself. A thing is ‘defiling’ only to the person who holds it to be so.

¹⁵If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!

¹⁶Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.