Romans 14:1-23
14 Welcome the [man] having weaknesses+ in [his] faith, but not to make decisions on inward+ questionings.
2 One [man] has faith to eat everything,+ but the [man] who is weak eats vegetables.
3 Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating,+ and let the one not eating not judge the one eating, for God has welcomed that one.
4 Who are you to judge the house servant of another?+ To his own master he stands or falls.+ Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Jehovah* can make him stand.+
5 One [man] judges one day as above another;+ another [man] judges one day as all others;+ let each [man] be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day observes it to Jehovah.* Also, he who eats, eats to Jehovah,*+ for he gives thanks to God;+ and he who does not eat does not eat to Jehovah,*+ and yet gives thanks to God.+
7 None of us, in fact, lives with regard to himself only,+ and no one dies with regard to himself only;
8 for both if we live, we live to Jehovah,*+ and if we die, we die to Jehovah.*+ Therefore both if we live and if we die, we belong to Jehovah.*+
9 For to this end Christ died and came to life again,+ that he might be Lord over both the dead+ and the living.+
10 But why do you judge your brother?+ Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment+ seat of God;
11 for it is written: “‘As I live,’ says Jehovah,*+ ‘to me every knee will bend down, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God.’”+
12 So, then, each of us will render an account for himself to God.*+
13 Therefore let us not be judging+ one another any longer, but rather make this YOUR decision,+ not to put before a brother+ a stumbling block+ or a cause for tripping.
14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiled in itself;+ only where a man considers something to be defiled, to him it is defiled.+
15 For if because of food your brother is being grieved, you are no longer walking in accord with love.+ Do not by your food ruin that one for whom Christ died.+
16 Do not, therefore, let the good YOU people do be spoken of with injury to YOU.
17 For the kingdom of God+ does not mean* eating and drinking,+ but [means]* righteousness+ and peace+ and joy+ with holy spirit.
18 For he who in this regard slaves for Christ is acceptable to God and has approval with men.+
19 So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace+ and the things that are upbuilding to one another.+
20 Stop tearing down the work of God just for the sake of food.+ True, all things are clean, but it is injurious to the man who with an occasion for stumbling eats.+
21 It is well not to eat flesh or to drink wine or do anything over which your brother stumbles.+
22 The faith that you have, have it in accord with yourself in the sight of God.+ Happy is the man that does not put himself on judgment by what he approves.
23 But if he has doubts, he is already condemned if he eats,+ because [he does] not [eat] out of faith. Indeed, everything that is not out of faith is sin.+
Footnotes
^ “Jehovah,” J18,23; P46אABC(Gr.), ho Kyʹri·os; DVgSyh, “God.” See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ “To God,” אADVgSyh,p; B omits.
^ Or, “[is].”
^ Or, “is not.”
