Римлянам 14

The weak and the strong

¹Welcome anyone whose faith is weak, but not in order to quarrel over their opinions. ²One person believes it is right to eat anything, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. ³The one who eats must not look down on the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats, because God has welcomed that person. ⁴Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? It is to their own master that they stand or fall. And they will stand, because the Lord has the power to keep them standing.^a

⁵One person regards one day as more important than another, while someone else regards every day as the same. Each person must be fully convinced in their own mind. ⁶Whoever observes the day does so for the Lord.^b Those who eat do so for the Lord, since they give thanks to God; and those who abstain do so for the Lord, and they too give thanks to God.

⁷For not one of us lives for ourselves, and not one of us dies for ourselves. ⁸If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. So, living or dying, we belong to the Lord. ⁹This is why Christ died and came to life: so that He would be Lord of both the dead and the living.^c

We will all stand before God

¹⁰You, then, why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you look down on your brother or sister? We will all stand before God’s judgment seat. ¹¹For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before Me, and every tongue will openly acknowledge God.”^{d 12}So each of us will have to give an account of ourselves.^e

Do not make another believer stumble

¹³So let us stop judging one another. Use your judgment for this instead: never to put a stumbling block or a snare in the way of a brother or sister. ¹⁴I know, and in the Lord Jesus I am fully persuaded, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if someone considers a thing unclean, then for that person it is unclean. ¹⁵If your brother or sister is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking in the way of love. Do not let what you eat bring ruin on someone for whom Christ died.^{f 16}So do not let the good thing you have be slandered.^{g 17}For the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking. It is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸Anyone who serves Christ in this way pleases God and wins the approval of others. ¹⁹So let us pursue whatever makes for peace and whatever builds one another up.^{h 20}Do not pull down God’s work just for the sake of food. All food is clean, it is true, but it is wrong for anyone to eat in a way that makes another stumble.^{i 21}It is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that makes your brother or sister stumble or fall or become weak.^{j 22}Whatever faith you have about these things, keep it between yourself and God.^k Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves by what they approve. ²³But anyone who has doubts and eats anyway stands condemned, because the eating does not come from faith. Whatever does not come from faith is sin.^lm