Anderson - Romans - 14

14:1  Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings.

14:2  One believes that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eats herbs.

14:3  Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him.

14:4  Who are you that judge another man’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls; indeed, he shall stand, for God is able to make him stand.

14:5  One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.

14:6  He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.

14:7  For no one lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

14:8  For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

14:9  For this very purpose, Christ both died and rose, and lived again, that he might have dominion over the dead and the living.

14:10  But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ.

14:11  For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.

14:12  Therefore, every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

14:13  Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother’s way.

14:14  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean.

14:15  But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died.

14:16  Therefore, let not that which is your good be evil spoken of.

14:17  For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

14:18  For he who serves the Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

14:19  Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification.

14:20  Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.

14:21  It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

14:22  Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

14:23  But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.