Romans 14

1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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

2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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

3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

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.

4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

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.

5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

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

6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

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.

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

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

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.

9 For to this end Messiah died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

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

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah.

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.

11 For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”

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

12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

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

13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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.

15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Messiah died.

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.

16 Then don’t let your good be slandered,

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

17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

18 For he who serves Messiah in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

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

19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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.

21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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.

22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

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

23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

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.