4. What right do you have to criticize someone else's servants? Only their Lord can decide if they are doing right, and the Lord will make sure that they do right.
5. Some of the Lord's followers think one day is more important than another. Others think all days are the same. But each of you should make up your own mind.
6. Any followers who count one day more important than another day do it to honour their Lord. And any followers who eat meat give thanks to God, just like the ones who don't eat meat.
7. Whether we live or die, it must be for God, rather than for ourselves.
8. Whether we live or die, it must be for the Lord. Alive or dead, we still belong to the Lord.
9. This is because Christ died and rose to life, so that he would be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
10. Why do you criticize other followers of the Lord? Why do you look down on them? The day is coming when God will judge all of us.
11. In the Scriptures God says,“I swear by my very lifethat everyone will kneel downand praise my name!”
12. And so, each of us must give an account to God for what we do.
13. We must stop judging others. We must also make up our minds not to upset anyone's faith.
14. The Lord Jesus has made it clear to me that God considers all foods fit to eat. But if you think some foods are unfit to eat, then for you they are not fit.