| 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 [alike]; let each in his own mind be fully assured. |
| 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. |
| 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 [is] unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one [it is] 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, [is] 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, [are] pure, but evil [is] to the man who is eating through stumbling. |
| 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. |
| 22 | Thou hast faith! to thyself have [it] 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 [it is] not of faith; and all that [is] not of faith is sin. |
