# Romans 14 (New King James Version)
The Law of Liberty

##### Chapter 14
###### 1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, _but_ not to disputes over doubtful things.  
###### 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats _only_ vegetables.  
###### 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.  
###### 4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

###### 5 One person esteems _one_ day above another; another esteems every day _alike._ Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.  
###### 6 He who observes the day, observes _it_ to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe _it._ He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.  
###### 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.  
###### 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.  
###### 9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.  
###### 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.  
###### 11 For it is written:
"_As_ I live, says the Lord,  
Every knee shall bow to Me,  
And every tongue shall confess to God."

###### 12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.  
###### 13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in _our_ brother's way.The Law of Love

###### 14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that _there is_ nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him _it is_ unclean.  
###### 15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of _your_ food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.  
###### 16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;  
###### 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  
###### 18 For he who serves Christ in these things _is_ acceptable to God and approved by men.

###### 19 Therefore let us pursue the things _which make_ for peace and the things by which one may edify another.  
###### 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed _are_ pure, but _it is_ evil for the man who eats with offense.  
###### 21 _It is_ good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor _do anything_ by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.  
###### 22 Do you have faith? Have _it_ to yourself before God. Happy _is_ he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.  
###### 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because _he does_ not _eat_ from faith; for whatever _is_ not from faith is sin.