- 1. ¶ ASSIST him who is weak in the faith. And do not waver in your reasoning.
- 2. For one believes that he may eat all things; another who is weak eats vegetables.
- 3. Let not him who eats despise him who eats not; and let not him who eats not judge him who eats; for God has received him also.
- 4. Who are you to judge another man’s servant? For if he is a success, he is a success to his master; and if he is a failure, he is a failure to his master. As for his success, he will succeed for it is in the power of his master to make him succeed.
- 5. One person values one day above another; another values all days alike. Let every man be sure in his own mind.
- 6. He who is mindful concerning a day’s duty is considerate of his master; and every one who is not mindful concerning a day’s duty is inconsiderate of his master. And he who is wasteful is detrimental to his master even though he confesses it to God; and he who is not wasteful is not wasteful to his master, yet he likewise tells it to God.
- 7. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
- 8. For whether we live, we live to our Lord; and whether we die, we die to our Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we belong to our Lord.
- 9. For to this end even Christ both died and came back to life, and rose to be Lord both of the dead and living.
- 10. Why, then, do you judge your brother? or why do you despise your brother? For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
- 11. For it is written, As I live, said the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess me.
- 12. So then every one of us shall answer for himself to God.
- 13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but rather be mindful of this, that you should never place a stumbling-block in the way of your brother.
- 14. For I know and have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing unclean comes from him; but to him who believes a thing to be unclean, to him only is it unclean.
- 15. But now if you have caused your brother to grieve on account of meat, then you are not living in harmony. Do not make food a cause to destroy a man for whose sake Christ died.
- 16. Let not our blessings be a reproach to any one;
- 17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- 18. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and is approved by men.
- 19. Now let us strive after peace and help one another.
- 20. And let us not, because of food, destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is wrong for the man who eats with offence.
- 21. It is better that we neither eat meat nor drink wine nor do any other thing whereby we cause our brother to stumble.
- 22. You who have a certain belief, keep it to yourself, in the presence of God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself by doing those things which he has selected.
- 23. For he who is doubtful and eats, violates his beliefs; for whatever is not of faith is sin.
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