Romans 14:13-23 - The Law Of Love
13 So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way. 14 I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean. 15 If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died. 16 Your rights must not get a bad name. 17 The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; 18 he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.
19 Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at. 20 You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats; 21 the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block. 22 Certainly keep your own conviction on the matter, as between yourself and God; he is a fortunate man who has no misgivings about what he allows himself to eat. 23 But if anyone has doubts about eating and then eats, that condemns him at once; it was not faith that induced him to eat, and any action that is not based on faith is a sin.