10-12 So where does that leave you when you criticize a brother? And where does that leave you when you condescend to a sister? I’d say it leaves you looking pretty silly—or worse. Eventually, we’re all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical and condescending ways aren’t going to improve your position there one bit. Read it for yourself in Scripture:

“As I live and breathe,” God says,
    “every knee will bow before me;
Every tongue will tell the honest truth
    that I and only I am God.”

So mind your own business. You’ve got your hands full just taking care of your own life before God.

13-14 Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I’m convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.

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12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.(A)

13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment(B) on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.(C) 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(D) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(E)

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