1 - And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;
2 - one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
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.
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.
5 - One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.
6 - He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard <FI>it<Fi> , and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard <FI>it<Fi> . 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.
7 - For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;
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;
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.
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;
11 - for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord--to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'
12 - so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;
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.
14 - I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;
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.
16 - Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,
17 - for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
18 - for he who in these things is serving the Christ, <FI>is<Fi> acceptable to God and approved of men.
19 - So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
20 - for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.
21 - Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
22 - Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,
23 - and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.
