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Other people with weak faith believe that they can eat only vegetables. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>People who eat all foods should not despise people who eat only vegetables. In the same way, the vegetarians should not criticize people who eat all foods, because God has accepted those people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? The Lord will determine whether his servant has been successful. The servant will be successful because the Lord makes him successful.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>One person decides that one day is holier than another. Another person decides that all days are the same. Every person must make his own decision. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When people observe a special day, they observe it to honor the Lord. When people eat all kinds of foods, they honor the Lord as they eat, since they give thanks to God. Vegetarians also honor the Lord when they eat, and they, too, give thanks to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It's clear that we don't live to honor ourselves, and we don't die to honor ourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If we live, we honor the Lord, and if we die, we honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this reason Christ died and came back to life so that he would be the Lord of both the living and the dead.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Why do you criticize or despise other Christians? Everyone will stand in front of God to be judged.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Scripture says, "As certainly as I live, says the Lord, everyone will worship me, and everyone will praise God."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All of us will have to give an account of ourselves to God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So let's stop criticizing each other. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make other Christians have doubts or lose their faith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Lord Jesus has given me the knowledge and conviction that no food is unacceptable in and of itself. But it is unacceptable to a person who thinks it is. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So if what you eat hurts another Christian, you are no longer living by love. Don't destroy anyone by what you eat. Christ died for that person. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Don't allow anyone to say that what you consider good is evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>God's kingdom does not consist of what a person eats or drinks. Rather, God's kingdom consists of God's approval and peace, as well as the joy that the Holy Spirit gives. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The person who serves Christ with this in mind is pleasing to God and respected by people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So let's pursue those things which bring peace and which are good for each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don't ruin God's work because of what you eat. All food is acceptable, but it's wrong for a person to eat something if it causes someone else to have doubts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that causes another Christian to have doubts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So whatever you believe about these things, keep it between yourself and God. The person who does what he knows is right shouldn't feel guilty. He is blessed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if a person has doubts and still eats, he is condemned because he didn't act in faith. Anything that is not done in faith is sin.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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