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From verses two to nine, Paul refers to the spiritual maturity based on the food they eat whether it is just vegetables or meat and vegetables. He expresses how one might have different viewpoints on the morality of certain issues. In verse two Paul talks about our individual accountability. While the church must be uncompromising against acts forbidden in Scripture such as adultery, murder, and homosexuality, it should not create additional rules and regulations and give them equal standing with God’s law. Many times we as Christians are hypocrites in how we morally judge others of their iniquities rather than basing them on the Word of God. When we do this, we show weak faith because we think that God is not powerful enough so we go ahead and take God’s place as judge.

Romans 14:2-12
2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God