14:1 Now be accepting the one being weak in the faith— [but] not for disputes about opinions.
14:2 One has faith to eat all things, but the one being weak eats vegetables.
14:3 Let not the one eating be treating-with-contempt the one not eating. And let not the one not eating be judging the one eating— for God accepted him.
14:4 Who are you, the one judging a household-servant belonging-to-another? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
14:5 For one judges a day beyond a day, but another judges every day alike. Let each one be fully-convinced in his own mind.
14:6 The one thinking as to the day, is thinking for the Lord. And the one eating, is eating for the Lord— for he gives-thanks to God. And the one not eating, is not eating for the Lord— and he 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. Therefore if we live and if we die, we are the Lord’s.
14:9 For Christ died and came-to-life for this: that He might be-Lord both of dead and living ones.
14:10 But why are you judging your brother? Or why also are you treating your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
14:11 For it has been written [in Isa 45:23]: “As I live”, says the Lord, “every knee will bow to Me. And every tongue will confess-out to God”.
14:12 So then, each of us will give an account for himself to God.
14:13 Therefore let us no longer be judging one another. But rather judge this: not to be placing an opportunity-for-stumbling or a cause-of-falling for the brother
14:14 ( I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiled in itself , except to the one considering anything to be defiled— to that one it is defiled).
14:15 For if your brother is grieved because of food, you are no longer walking according-to love. Do not be destroying with your food that one for whom Christ died.
14:16 Therefore do not be letting your good thing be blasphemed.
14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18 For the one serving Christ in this is pleasing to God and approved by people.
14:19 So then, let us be pursuing the things of peace and the things of edification for one another.
14:20 Do not be tearing-down the work of God for the sake of food. All things are clean— but it is evil for the person eating with an opportunity-for-stumbling.
14:21 It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
14:22 The faith which you have, be having for yourself in the sight of God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he is approving.
14:23 But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because it was not from faith— and everything which is not from faith is sin.
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