1. Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
2. One person believes that one may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.
3. The one who eats must not despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats; for God has welcomed him.
4. Who are you to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5. [For] one person considers one day more important than another, while another person considers all days alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6. Whoever observes the day, observes it for the Lord. Also whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while whoever abstains, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.
7. None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.
8. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
9. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10. Why then do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;
11. for it is written:“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend before me,and every tongue shall give praise to God.”
12. So [then] each of us shall give an account of himself [to God].
13. Then let us no longer judge one another, but rather resolve never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.