The Law of Liberty
(Matthew 7:1–6; Luke 6:37–42)

1And receive the one being weak in the faith, not for passing judgment on reasonings.† 2Indeed, one believes to eat all things, but the one being weak eats vegetables. 3The one eating, let him not despise the one not eating; and the one not eating, let him not judge the one eating, for God received him. 4Who are you, judging another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for the Lord† is able to make him stand.

5For indeed, one judges a day above a day, but one judges every day alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind. 6The one regarding the day regards it to the Lord;† the one eating eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8For both if we should live, we live to the Lord, and if we should die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we should live and if we should die, we are the Lord’s. 9For unto this Christ died† and lived again, so that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

10But why do you judge your brother? Or why also do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.† 11For it has been written:

“As I live,

says the Lord,

every knee will bow to Me,

and every tongue will confess to God.Ӡ

12So then, each of us will give account concerning himself to God.†

The Law of Love
(Ezekiel 14:1–11; 1 Corinthians 8:1–13)

13May we no longer, therefore, judge one another; but rather you⁺ decide this, not to put a stumbling block or obstacle before a brother.

14I know and I am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him reckoning anything to be unclean, to that one it is unclean. 15For if because of food your brother is grieved, no longer do you walk according to love. Do not destroy with your food that one for whom Christ died.

16Therefore do not let your⁺ good be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18For the one serving Christ in in this† is well-pleasing to God and approved by men.

19So then, may we pursue the things of peace, and the things of building up one another. 20Do not demolish the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man eating through a stumbling block. 21It is good neither to eat meat nor to drink wine nor anything in which your brother stumbles.†

22The faith that you have, have it to yourself before God.† Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. 23But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and everything that is not of faith is sin.†

Footnotes:

1 Or without passing judgment on his opinions
4 BYZ and TR for God
6 BYZ and TR include the one who does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it;
9 BYZ and TR include and rose again.
10 BYZ and TR of Christ
11 Or will give praise to God or will acknowledge God; Isaiah 45:23 (see also LXX)
12 SBL does not include to God.
18 BYZ and TR in these things
21 SBL, BYZ, and TR include or is led into sin or is weakened.
22 Or Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God
23 Some manuscripts place the text of Romans 16:25–27 here.