²² The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

²³ But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

⁵ This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

¹ Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

¹⁴ I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

² One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

²⁴ How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

¹⁵ And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

¹² For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.