Accountability to Christ, the Lord of All

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One person considers some days more holy than others, while someone else regards them as being all alike. What is important is for each to be fully convinced in his own mind.

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He who observes a day as special does so to honor the Lord. Also he who eats anything, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; likewise the abstainer abstains to honor the Lord, and he too gives thanks to God.

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For none of us lives only in relation to himself, and none of us dies only in relation to himself;

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for if we live, we live in relation to the Lord; and if we die, we die in relation to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord —

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indeed, it was for this very reason that the Messiah died and came back to life, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

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You then, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For all of us will stand before God’s judgment seat;

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since it is written in the Tanakh, “As I live, says Adonai, every knee will bend before me, and every tongue will publicly acknowledge God.”

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So then, every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

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