| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don't argue about doubtful issues. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who are you to criticize another's household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, yet he thanks God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Christ died and came to life for this: that He might rule over both the dead and the living. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But you, why do you criticize your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the tribunal of God. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will give praise to God. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother's way. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14(I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.) |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore, do not let your good be slandered, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not tear down God's work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do you have a conviction? Keep it to yourself before God. The man who does not condemn himself by what he approves is blessed. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin. |
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