LO - Romans - 14

14:1  Receive him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions.

14:2  One, indeed, believes he may eat everything; but he who is weak eats herbs only.

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

14:4  Who are you that condemn another man's servant? By his own master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

14:5  One, indeed, thinks one day more holy than another: but another thinks every day alike . Let every one be convinced in his own mind.

14:6  He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, does not observe it: he who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.

14:7  For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

14:8  But whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, ot die, we are the Lord's.

14:9  For to this end, Christ both dies and rose, and lives again, that he might rule over both the dead and the living.

14:10  But you, why do you condemn your brother? and you, also, why do you despise your brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment seat of Christ.

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

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

14:13  Let us, therefore, no more judge one another; but let us decide, rather, not to lay an occasion of stumbling before a brother, or a cause of falling.

14:14  I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean.

14:15  Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died.

14:16  Let not your good, then, be an evil spoken of.

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

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

14:19  Well, then, let us strive after peace, and mutual edification.

14:20  Do not, for the sake of meat, destroy the work of God. All meats , indeed, are clean; but that meat is hurtful to the man who eats to occasion stumbling.

14:21  It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother is made to stumble, or to fall, or is weakened.

14:22  You have faith: keep it to yourself, in the sight of God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

14:23  For he who discerns a difference, between meats is condemned, if he eat; because he eats not from faith: for what is not from faith is sin.