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

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.

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.

⁷ Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

¹¹ And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

¹⁰ You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

¹⁶ For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

¹⁷ For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

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