Romans 14:9-19

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

¹⁰But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall 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 confess to God.”

¹²So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.

¹³Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an offense before our brother.

¹⁴I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

¹⁶Therefore do not let your good be slandered.

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸For he that serves Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁹Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.