But now, having known God, or rather, having been known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which once again you wish to be slaves?

You observe days and months and seasons and years.

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.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

But he who doubts, if he eats, has been condemned, because [it is] not of faith; and everything which [is] not of faith is sin.

However, this knowledge is not in all [people]; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as [something] offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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

And in this we know that we are from the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.