Romans 14 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Principles of Conscience

1As for the one whose faith is weak, accept him, but not for quarreling over his opinions.

2One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables.

3The one who eats is not to look down on the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not criticize or pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

4Who are you to judge the servant of another? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5One person regards one day as better than another, while another regards every day. Let everyone be fully convinced (assured, satisfied) in his own mind.

6He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord. He who eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

7None of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.

8If 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.

9For Christ died and lived again for this reason, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

10But you, why do you criticize your brother? Or you again, why do you look down on your brother or regard him with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

11For it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,

And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

13Then let us not criticize one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block or a source of temptation in another believer’s way.

14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean to anyone who thinks it is unclean.

15If your brother is being hurt or offended because of food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat destroy and spiritually harm one for whom Christ died.

16Therefore do not let what is a good thing for you be spoken of as evil;

17for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18For the one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and is approved by men.

19So then, let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

20Do not, for the sake of food, tear down the work of God. All things indeed are clean, but they are wrong for the person who eats and offends.

21It is good not eat meat or drink wine, or do anything that offends your brother and weakens him spiritually.

22The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who has no reason to condemn himself for what he approves.

23But he who is uncertain is condemned if he eats, because he is not acting from faith. Whatever is not from faith is sin.