Romans 14 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another

Rom 14:1As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Rom 14:2One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Rom 14:3Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Rom 14:4

Rom 14:4Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master[fn] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Rom 14:5

Rom 14:5One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Rom 14:6

Rom 14:6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Rom 14:7

Rom 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

Rom 14:8

Rom 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

Rom 14:9

Rom 14:9For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Rom 14:10

Rom 14:10Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;

Rom 14:11

Rom 14:11for it is written,
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess[fn] to God.”

Rom 14:12

Rom 14:12So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

Rom 14:13

Rom 14:13Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Rom 14:14

Rom 14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Rom 14:15

Rom 14:15For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Rom 14:16

Rom 14:16So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.

Rom 14:17

Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Rom 14:18

Rom 14:18Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Rom 14:19

Rom 14:19So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Rom 14:20

Rom 14:20Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

Rom 14:21

Rom 14:21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.[fn]

Rom 14:22

Rom 14:22The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.

Rom 14:23

Rom 14:23But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.[fn]

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ESV Footnotes

(14:4)

Or lord

(14:11)

Or shall give praise

(14:21)

Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened

(14:23)

Some manuscripts insert here 16:25–27

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Romans 14 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another

Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

ESV Footnotes

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