9 For this, “Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bear false
testimony, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other precept, it is comprehended in this saying,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
10 Love works no evil to a neighbor; the fulfilling then of the law is love.
11 Moreover, as ye know the time, that the hour is, when we ought to have awakened already
from sleep, (for nearer is now our salvation than when we believed,)
12 The night is far advanced, and the day has approached; let us then cast away the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armor of light:
13 Let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in chamberings and
lasciviousness, not in contention and envy;
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and have no care for the flesh for the sake of its lusts.
CHAPTER 14
1 Now him who is weak in faith receiver not for the debatings of questions.
2 Let him indeed who believes eat everything; but he who is weak, eats herbs.
3 Let not him who eats, despise him who abstains; and let not him who abstains, condemn him
who eats, since God has received him.
4 Who art thou who judgest the servant of another? to his own Lord he stands or falls: he shall
indeed stand, for God is able to make him stand.
5 One indeed esteems a day above a day; but another esteems every day alike: let every one be
fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He who regards a day, regards it for the Lord; and he who regards not a day, regards it not
for the Lord: he who eats, eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains,
abstains for the Lord, and gives thanks to God;
7 For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself;
8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord; whether
then we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose and lived again, that he might be the Lord both of
the dead and of the living.
10 But thou,^488 why dost thou judge thy brother? or also thou^489 why dost thou despise thy
brother? for we must all stand before the tribunal of Christ;
11 For it is written, “Live do I, saith the Lord; to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue
shall confess to God.”
12 Every one of us then shall give an account of himself to God.
13 Let us therefore no more judge one another; but rather judge this, that no occasion of falling
or an offense be given to a brother.
14 I know and am persuaded, that in the Lord Jesus nothing is in itself unclean: but he who
regards anything unclean, to him it is unclean.
(^488) The Jewish convert.
(^489) The Gentile believer.