1WELCOME him who is weak in the faith, but not in order to decide disputed questions. 2One man believes in eating all things. The weak man eats vegetables. 3The man who eats is not to despise the one who does not eat, and he who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats. For God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls, and stand he will, for God is able to make him stand. 5One man esteems one day above another, another man esteems every day. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6He who regards the day regards it to the Lord and he who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For no one of us is living for himself and no one dies for himself. 8If we live we live for the Lord and if we die we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die we are the Lord's. 9For to this end Christ died and lived again, in order that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. 10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me and every tongue shall confess to God." 12So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God. 13Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but let us rather decide not to put a stumbling block in a brother's way, or anything to trip him up. 14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling. 15If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died. 16Do not let what is good to you be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18For he who thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men. 19Therefore, let us seek for what makes for peace and our mutual upbuilding. 20Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong. 21It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles. 22The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself. 23He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.