⁵ Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds.

¹⁶ Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or^[a] drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths.^{(A) 17} These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ.

¹⁹ And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him^{(A) 20} whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹ Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God,

²³ But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat because they do not act from faith,^[a] for whatever does not proceed from faith^[b] is sin.^[c]

¹¹ So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed.^(A)

⁷ It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.^(A)

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.^(A)

⁹ Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?^[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?^{(A) 10} You are observing special days and months and seasons and years.