9. That is why Christ died and rose from death to live again. He did this so that he would be Lord over both the dead and the living.
10. So why do you judge your brother in Christ? And why do you think that you are better than he is? We will all stand before God, and he will judge us all.
11. Yes, it is written in the Scriptures:“Everyone will bow before me;everyone will say that I am God.As surely as I live, these things will happen, says the Lord.” Isaiah 45:23
12. So each of us will have to answer to God for what he has done.
13. So we should stop judging each other. We must make up our minds not to do anything that will make a Christian brother sin.
14. I am in the Lord Jesus, and I know that there is no food that is wrong to eat. But if a person believes that something is wrong, then that thing is wrong for him.
15. If you hurt your brother’s faith because of something you eat, then you are not really following the way of love. Do not destroy his faith by eating food that he thinks is wrong. Christ died for him.
16. Do not allow what you think is good to become what others say is evil.
17. In the kingdom of God, eating and drinking are not important. The important things are living right with God, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.