1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured 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. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written,

"‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.

Every tongue will confess to God.’"

12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don’t let your good be slandered, 17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, 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 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

1 En neem hom aan wat swak is in die geloof, nie om oor sy gevoelens te oordeel nie.

2 Die een glo dat 'n mens alles mag eet, maar hy wat swak is, eet groente.

3 Hy wat eet, moet hom wat nie eet, nie verag nie; en hy wat nie eet, moet hom wat eet, nie oordeel nie, want God het hom aangeneem.

4 Wie is jy wat die huiskneg van 'n ander oordeel? Hy staan of val met betrekking tot sy eie heer; maar hy sal staande bly, want God is magtig om hom staande te hou.

5 Die een ag die een dag bo die ander, die ander ag al die dae gelyk. Laat elkeen in sy eie gemoed ten volle oortuig wees.

6 Hy wat die dag waarneem, neem dit waar tot eer van die Here; en hy wat die dag nie waarneem nie, neem dit nie waar nie tot eer van die Here; en wie eet, eet tot eer van die Here, want hy dank God; en wie nie eet nie, eet nie tot eer van die Here, en hy dank God.

7 Want niemand van ons leef vir homself nie en niemand sterf vir homself nie.

8 Want as ons lewe, leef ons tot eer van die Here; en as ons sterwe, sterf ons tot eer van die Here; of ons dan lewe en of ons sterwe, ons behoort aan die Here.

9 Want hiervoor het Christus ook gesterwe en opgestaan en weer lewend geword, om oor dode sowel as lewende te heers.

10 Maar jy, waarom oordeel jy jou broeder? Of jy ook, waarom verag jy jou broeder? Want ons sal almal voor die regterstoel van Christus gestel word.

11 Want daar is geskrywe: So waaragtig as Ek leef, sê die Here, voor My sal elke knie buig, en elke tong sal God bely.

12 So sal elkeen van ons dan vir homself aan God rekenskap gee.

13 Laat ons dan mekaar nie meer oordeel nie, maar besluit d¡t liewer, om nie die broeder 'n hindernis of struikelblok in die weg te lê nie.

14 Ek weet en is oortuig in die Here Jesus dat niks op sigself onrein is nie, maar hy wat reken dat iets onrein is, vir hom is dit onrein.

15 Maar as jou broeder deur voedsel gegrief word, dan wandel jy nie meer volgens die liefde nie. Moenie deur jou voedsel hom te gronde rig vir wie Christus gesterf het nie.

16 Laat dan van die goeie wat aan julle behoort, nie kwaad gespreek word nie.

17 Want die koninkryk van God is nie spys en drank nie, maar geregtigheid en vrede en blydskap in die Heilige Gees.

18 Want hy wat Christus hierin dien, is aan God welgevallig en by die mense geag.

19 Laat ons dan najaag wat tot vrede en onderlinge stigting dien.

20 Moenie ter wille van voedsel die werk van God afbreek nie. Alles is wel rein, maar dit is verkeerd vir 'n mens om te eet as dit tot aanstoot is.

21 Dit is goed om geen vleis te eet of wyn te drink of iets te doen waardeur jou broeder aanstoot neem of struikel, of waarin hy swak is nie.

22 Het jy geloof? Behou dit vir jouself voor die aangesig van God. Gelukkig is hy wat homself nie oordeel in wat hy vir geoorloof ag nie.

23 Maar hy wat twyfel as hy eet, is veroordeel, omdat dit nie uit die geloof is nie; en alles wat nie uit die geloof is nie, is sonde.