1. Now receive the one who is weak in faith, but not for quarrels about opinions.
2. One believes he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables.
3. The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.
4. Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5. One person prefers one day over another day, and another person regards every day alike. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.
6. The one who is intent on the day is intent on it for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God.
7. For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.
8. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
9. For Christ died and became alive again for this reason, in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10. But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
11. For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God.”