1Receive him
who is weak in faith,
but not
by getting involved in arbitrating in arguments.
2One
person believes in eating everything; another
who is weak eats vegetables.
3Let him
who eats
something not despise him
who does not eat
it, nor he
who does not eat
something judge him
who does eat
it. For God has accepted him.
4Who are you to judge another
person's servant? He stands or falls
serving his own master. But he will be upheld, for God is able to uphold him.
5One
person judges
one day against another, while another judges each day. Let each
one be completely sure in his own mind.
6He
who considers the day considers
it to
the honour of the Lord, and he
who ignores the day ignores
it to
the honour of the Lord. And he
who eats
something, eats
it to
the honour of the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he
who refrains from eating
something refrains from eating
it also to
the honour of the Lord, and he gives God thanks.
7For none of us lives for himself, and no-one dies for himself.
8For if we live, we live to the Lord, or if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
9For
it is for this
reason that Christ both died and rose and came to life: in order that he might be Lord of both
the dead and
the living.
10And why do you judge your brother? Or again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand at Christ's court.
11For it stands written:
“ ‘As I live’, says the Lord,
‘To me every knee shall bow,
And every tongue will confess to God.’ ”
12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13So let us no longer judge each other, but judge this rather: not to put a stumbling block or a
cause of offence in
your brother's way.
14I know and have been persuaded by
the Lord Jesus that nothing
is profane of itself, except that to anyone
who considers something to be profane, to him
it is profane.
15And if your brother grieves on account of food, you no longer walk lovingly. Do not by your food lose him for whom Christ died.
16So do not let your good
behaviour be slandered,
17for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy by holy spirit.
18For he
who serves Christ in these
matters is pleasing to God and approved of by men.
19So then, let us pursue the
things that pertain to peace and to each other's edification.
20Do not undo the work for God on account of food. All
things are clean, but
it is wrong for the man who eats with offence
to do so.
21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or
to consume anything at which your brother stumbles or is offended or falters.
22Do you have faith? Have
it as your own in God's sight. Blessed
is he
who does not judge himself in what he approves of.
23But he
who is in two minds stands condemned if he eats
like that, because
it is not
based on faith. Indeed everything that
is not
based on faith is a sin.
24To him
who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the proclaiming of Jesus Christ by revelation of a mystery, kept silent in
past durations of the ages,
25but
which is now made manifest, through prophetic scriptures on command of age-abiding God, for obedience to faith, having been made known to all the nations,
26to God
the only wise
one, through Jesus Christ, to him
be glory throughout the ages. Amen.
● The last three verses above are at the end of Romans 16 in the AV and many editions.
Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.11 ↔ Isaiah 45:23.