But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or becomes weak.

For who has despised the small days? Surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.

"See that you do not despise one of these little [ones], for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.

Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an offense before our brother.

"Judge not, lest you be judged.

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured [back] to you.

Then the disciples of John approached Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?"

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' And so wisdom is justified by her children."

"Conscience," I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience?

But if I partake with thanks, why am I defamed for [that] of which I give thanks?

Therefore do not let anyone judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or of a new moon or of sabbaths,

which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

And Peter, opening his mouth, said: "In truth I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.

And God, the knower of hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as also [He did] to us,

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.