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| 1 And him who is weak in the faith receive ye not to determinations of reasonings; |
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| 2 one doth believe that he may eat all things and he who is weak doth eat herbs; |
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| 3 let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him. |
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| 4 Thou who art thou that art judging another's domestic to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. |
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| 5 One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day [alike]; let each in his own mind be fully assured. |
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| 6 He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard [it], and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God. |
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| 7 For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die; |
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| 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's; |
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| 9 for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord. |
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| 10 And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; |
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| 11 for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;' |
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| 12 so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God; |
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| 13 no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence. |
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| 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing [is] unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean to that one [it is] unclean; |
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| 15 and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died. |
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| 16 Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of, |
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| 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; |
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| 18 for he who in these things is serving the Christ, [is] acceptable to God and approved of men. |
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| 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another; |
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| 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, [are] pure, but evil [is] to the man who is eating through stumbling. |
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| 21 Right [it is] not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to [do anything] in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak. |
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| 22 Thou hast faith! to thyself have [it] before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve, |
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| 23 and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because [it is] not of faith; and all that [is] not of faith is sin. |
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