Study Desk

Therefore let us stop passing judgment^(q) on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.^(r)

I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.^(s) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.^(t)

If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love.^(u) Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.^(v)

Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.^(w)

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,^(x) but of righteousness, peace^(y) and joy in the Holy Spirit,^(z)

because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.^(aa)

Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace^(ab) and to mutual edification.^(ac)

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.^(ad) All food is clean,^(ae) but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.^(af)

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.^(ag)

So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn^(ah) himself by what he approves.

But whoever has doubts^(ai) is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.^[c]