Romans 14:8-19

⁸for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

⁹for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

¹⁰And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;

¹¹for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord — to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'

¹²so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

¹³no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

¹⁴I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean — to that one it is unclean;

¹⁵and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

¹⁶Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

¹⁷for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

¹⁸for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

¹⁹So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;