2. Some people believe that they can eat all kinds of food. Other people with weak faith believe that they can eat only vegetables.
3. People who eat all foods should not despise people who eat only vegetables. In the same way, the vegetarians should not criticize people who eat all foods, because God has accepted those people.
4. Who are you to criticize someone else’s servant? The Lord will determine whether his servant has been successful. The servant will be successful because the Lord makes him successful.
5. One person decides that one day is holier than another. Another person decides that all days are the same. Every person must make his own decision.
6. When people observe a special day, they observe it to honor the Lord. When people eat all kinds of foods, they honor the Lord as they eat, since they give thanks to God. Vegetarians also honor the Lord when they eat, and they, too, give thanks to God.
7. It’s clear that we don’t live to honor ourselves, and we don’t die to honor ourselves.
8. If we live, we honor the Lord, and if we die, we honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9. For this reason Christ died and came back to life so that he would be the Lord of both the living and the dead.
10. Why do you criticize or despise other Christians? Everyone will stand in front of God to be judged.
11. Scripture says,“As certainly as I live, says the Lord,everyone will worship me,and everyone will praise God.”
12. All of us will have to give an account of ourselves to God.
13. So let’s stop criticizing each other. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make other Christians have doubts or lose their faith.
14. The Lord Jesus has given me the knowledge and conviction that no food is unacceptable in and of itself. But it is unacceptable to a person who thinks it is.