Romans 14

1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.Cross-references: Job 4:3 · Isa 35:3 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 42:3 · Ezek 34:4 · Ezek 34:16 · +18 more

2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Gen 9:3 · Prov 15:17 · Dan 1:12 · Dan 1:16 · Rom 14:14 · +7 more

3Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.Cross-references: Zech 4:10 · Matt 7:1 · Matt 9:14 · Matt 11:18 · Matt 18:10 · Luke 18:9 · +10 more

4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.Cross-references: Deut 33:27 · Ps 17:5 · Ps 37:17 · Ps 37:24 · Ps 37:28 · Ps 119:116 · +13 more

5One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.Cross-references: Rom 14:14 · Rom 14:23 · 1Cor 8:7 · 1Cor 8:11 · Gal 4:9 · Col 2:16 · +1 more

6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.Cross-references: Ex 12:14 · Ex 12:42 · Ex 16:25 · Isa 58:5 · Zech 7:5 · Matt 14:19 · +5 more

7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.Cross-references: Rom 14:9 · 1Cor 6:19 · 2Cor 5:15 · Gal 2:19 · Phil 1:20 · 1Thess 5:10 · +2 more

8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.Cross-references: John 21:19 · Acts 13:36 · Acts 20:24 · Acts 21:13 · 1Cor 3:22 · 1Cor 15:23 · +6 more

9For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.Cross-references: Isa 53:10 · Matt 28:18 · Luke 24:26 · John 5:22 · John 5:27 · Acts 10:36 · +10 more

10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.Cross-references: Eccl 12:14 · Matt 25:31 · Luke 23:11 · John 5:22 · Acts 4:11 · Acts 10:42 · +7 more

11For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”Cross-references: Num 14:21 · Num 14:28 · Ps 72:11 · Isa 45:22 · Isa 49:18 · Jer 22:24 · +9 more

12So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.Cross-references: Eccl 11:9 · Matt 12:36 · Matt 16:27 · Matt 18:23 · Luke 16:2 · Gal 6:5 · +1 more

13Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.Cross-references: Lev 19:14 · 2Sam 12:14 · Isa 57:14 · Ezek 14:3 · Matt 7:1 · Matt 16:23 · +19 more

14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.Cross-references: Acts 10:14 · Acts 10:28 · Acts 11:8 · Rom 14:2 · Rom 14:20 · Rom 14:23 · +5 more

15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.Cross-references: Ezek 13:22 · Rom 13:10 · Rom 14:20 · Rom 15:2 · 1Cor 8:1 · 1Cor 8:11 · +7 more

16Then don’t let your good be slandered,Cross-references: Rom 12:17 · 1Cor 10:29 · 2Cor 8:20 · 1Thess 5:22

17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.Cross-references: Isa 45:24 · Isa 55:12 · Isa 61:3 · Jer 23:5 · Dan 2:44 · Dan 9:24 · +31 more

18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Eccl 9:7 · Mark 13:34 · John 12:26 · Acts 10:35 · Rom 6:22 · +20 more

19So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.Cross-references: Ps 34:14 · Ps 133:1 · Matt 5:9 · Mark 9:50 · Rom 12:18 · Rom 15:2 · +16 more

20Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.Cross-references: Matt 15:11 · Matt 18:6 · Acts 10:15 · Rom 14:14 · Rom 14:21 · 1Cor 6:12 · +6 more

21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.Cross-references: Mal 2:8 · Matt 16:23 · Matt 18:7 · Luke 17:1 · Rom 14:13 · Rom 14:17 · +5 more

22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.Cross-references: Acts 24:16 · Rom 7:15 · Rom 7:24 · Rom 14:2 · Rom 14:5 · Rom 14:14 · +5 more

23But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.Cross-references: Rom 13:2 · Rom 14:5 · 1Cor 8:7 · 1Cor 11:29 · Titus 1:15 · Heb 11:6