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14:1  Accept the · one who is weak in faith, but do not argue about his personal opinions.
14:2  One person believes he can eat anything, while the weak brother eats only vegetables.
14:3  The one who eats everything must not hold in contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who abstains from eating must not judge the one who eats, for · God has accepted him.
14:4  Who are you · to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? It is before his own master that he will stand or fall. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
14:5  For one person regards one day more sacred than another, while another person regards all days the same. Each person must be fully convinced in · his own mind.
14:6  The one who observes the day observes it for the Lord. And the one who eats, eats for the Lord, because he gives thanks to God; and the one who abstains from eating, does not eat for the Lord and gives thanks to God.
14:7  For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself.
14:8  For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord.
14:9  For the reason why Christ died and rose to life again was that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
14:10  Why do you · pass judgment on · your brother? Or again, why do you hold · your brother in contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
14:11  For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”
14:12  So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
14:13  Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but resolve this instead, never to put an obstacle or a trap in a brother’s way.
14:14  I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; however, to the one who considers something to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15  For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, · you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by what you eat that brother for whom Christ died.
14:16  Therefore do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.
14:17  For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18  For whoever serves Christ in this way · is pleasing to God and approved by men.
14:19  So then let us pursue what makes for peace and · for mutual upbuilding. ·
14:20  Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. All food is indeed clean, but it is wrong to cause · another to stumble by what you eat.
14:21  It is good · not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything that makes · your brother stumble.
14:22  The faith that you have, keep as your own conviction before · God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to condemn himself for what he approves.
14:23  But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.