<p>14:3 <i>Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains</i><i>, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats; for God has accepted him</i>- Those with a more Biblically correct position are tempted to &quot;despise&quot; those who 'don't get it'. But all such spiritual elitism is wrong. Paul uses the same word used about how the Pharisee despised the publican (Lk. 18:9)- to demonstrate that such spiritual superiority was in fact a form of the very Pharisaism which they were despising. The legalists were likewise inclined to judge their brothers who ate anything- using the weight of the Mosaic law to condemn. Paul alludes to both groups in :10, where he uses the same Greek words in appealing for brethren not to &quot;judge&quot; and &quot;set at nothing&quot; (s.w. &quot;despise&quot;) their brethren- because they all stood before the Lord's judgment seat as sinners.</p>