Romans 14

¹ Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

² One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

³ Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

⁴ Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

⁵ One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

⁶ He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹¹ For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

¹² So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

¹³ Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Then don’t let your good be slandered,

¹⁷ for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁹ So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

²⁰ Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

²¹ It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

²² Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

²³ But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

²⁵ but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;

²⁶ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

¹ NNow him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

² For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

⁵ For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.

⁶ He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.

⁷ For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. CCC

⁸ For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. CCC · Fathers

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Fathers

¹¹ For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God. Fathers

¹² Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself. Fathers

¹³ Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother’s way.

¹⁴ I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. Fathers

¹⁶ Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. CCC

¹⁸ For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

¹⁹ Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.

²⁰ Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak. CCC

²² Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

²³ But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.