14:01 .. now accept the one who is weak in faith .. but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions 14:02 .. one person has faith that he may eat all things .. but he who is weak eats vegetables only 14:03 .. the one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat .. and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats .. ......... for God has accepted him 14:04 .. who are you to judge the servant of another .. to his own master he stands or falls .. and he will stand .. for the Lord is able to make him stand 14:05 .. one person regards one day above another .. another regards every day alike .. each person must be fully convinced in his own mind 14:06 .. he who observes the day .. observes it for the Lord .. and he who eats .. does so for the Lord .. for he gives thanks to God .. ......... and he who eats not .. for the Lord he does not eat .. and gives thanks to God 14:07 .. for not one of us lives for himself .. and not one dies for himself 14:08 .. for if we live .. we live for the Lord .. or if we die .. we die for the Lord .. therefore whether we live or die .. we are the Lord’s 14:09 .. for to this end Christ died and lived again .. that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living 14:10 .. but you .. why do you judge your brother .. or you again .. why do you regard your brother with contempt .. ......... for we will all stand before the judgment seat of God 14:11 .. for it is written . . . as I live .. says the Lord .. every knee shall bow to me .. and every tongue shall give praise to God 14:12 .. so then each one of us will give an account of himself to God
14:13 .. therefore let us not judge one another anymore .. but rather determine this .. not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way 14:14 .. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself .. but to him who thinks anything to be unclean .. to him it is unclean 14:15 .. for if because of food your brother is hurt .. you are no longer walking according to love .. do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died
14:16 .. therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil 14:17 .. for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking .. but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit 14:18 .. for he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men 14:19 .. so then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another 14:20 .. do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food .. all things indeed are clean .. but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense 14:21 .. It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine .. or to do anything by which your brother stumbles 14:22 .. the faith which you have .. have as your own conviction before God .. happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves 14:23 .. but he who doubts is condemned if he eats .. because his eating is not from faith .. and whatever is not from faith is sin
To do what conscience allows is not always right and to do what it questions is always wrong .. the strong Christian should not be contemptuous toward the opinion of a weaker brother on a doubtful question .. I neither should the weaker man be censorious toward the stronger because of what conscience allows him .. both have a right to opinion and both are responsible to God for it . . . . v 8-9 to the Lord Jesus Christ .. to whom all judgment is committed .. we are to do everything .. to this end .. he both died and arose .. that he might be Lord of those who are living to rule them .. and Lord of the dead to raise them up .. we are therefore .. answerable to him in everything .. let us not intrench upon his right by arraigning our brothers at our own bar