14 As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food2 14:14 Or that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. |
15 If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. |
16 Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. |
17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, |
18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. |
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. |
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. |
21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall. |
22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. |
23 But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. |