Romans 14:8-19

⁸For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Whether then we live or die, we are the Lord's.

⁹For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

¹⁰But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? And thou, too, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

¹¹For it is written, “As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall give praise to God.”

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

¹³Let us then no longer judge one another; but let this rather be your judgment, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in a brother's way.

¹⁴I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him that accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵For if on account of food thy brother is made to mourn, thou art no longer walking according to love. Do not with thy food destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not then the blessing which ye enjoy be evil spoken of.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

¹⁸for he who in this matter serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

¹⁹Let us then strive to promote peace, and the edification of each other.