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¹ A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion. ² for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs. ³ let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him. ⁴ who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him. ⁵ one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike. let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind. ⁶ he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest. ⁷ for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters. ⁸ if we live, our life is appropriated to the Lord; and if we die, we die as his servants: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's. ⁹ for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. ¹⁰ why then dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou think contemptibly of thy brother? since we shall all of us be brought before the judgment-seat of Christ. ¹¹ for it is written , "as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God." ¹² Since then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God; ¹³ let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall. ¹⁴ I know, being fully assured by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: it is only so to him that thinks it is unclean. ¹⁵ now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died? ¹⁶ Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach. ¹⁷ for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy. ¹⁸ for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men. ¹⁹ Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification. ²⁰ do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence. ²¹ it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off. ²² keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience. blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats: ²³ for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .