Romans 14:9-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ For to this end Christ died and rose again; that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹¹ For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

¹² Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.

¹³ Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

¹⁴ I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is approved of men.