Romans 14

1 Yet take forth the person languishing in the faith, but not for dissection of reasonings.

2 While this one believes to eat all things, yet the person languishing must eat* vegetables.

3 The person eating must not set at nought the person not eating, and the person not eating must not judge the person eating, for the God has taken him forth.

4 You are who, the person judging another's household-bondservant? By the own lord of his he stands or falls. Yet he will be made to stand, for the Lord can make him stand.

5 While this person judges one day beside another day, yet this person judges every day alike. Each person in the own mind of his must be fulfilled.

6 The person minding the day, to the Lord he minds it,* and the person eating, to the Lord he eats, for he gives thanks to the God, and the person not eating, to the Lord he does not eat and he gives thanks to the God.

7 For not one of us lives by himself, and not one dies by himself,

8 for both if we would live, by the Lord we would live, and if we would die, by the Lord we would die. So both if we would live and if we would die, we exist by the Lord.

9 Indeed, for this, Christ died and lived, so that He be lord over both them being dead and them living.

10 You yourself, though, judge the sibling of yours, why? Or you even yourself set the sibling of yours at nought, why? For we all will be stood by the dais of the God,*

11 for it is written: Live I, says the Lord, if not every knee shall bend to Me, and every tongue confess to the God?*

12 Fittingly, therefore, each of us will give account about himself to the God.

13 No longer, therefore, should we judge one another. Instead, judge this more: to not set stumbling or snare to the sibling.

14 I saw and was persuaded by Lord Jesus that not one thing is common* through itself, if not to the person accounting something to be common; to that person, it is common.*

15 Indeed, if due to food the sibling of yours is pained, no more are you walking according to love. Do not by the food of yours do away with* that person for whom Christ died.

16 The good of yours must not be slandered, therefore!

17 Indeed, the Kingdom of the God is not eating and drinking but justice and peace and joy in* Holy Spirit.

18 Indeed, the person serving the Christ in this is well pleasing to the God and worthy to the human beings.

19 Fittingly, therefore, we pursue the things of the peace and the things of the building, the building into* one another.

20 Do not for the sake of food destroy the work of the God. Though all things are clean, it is instead bad to the human being who is eating via stumbling.

21 Good is to not eat meats* nor yet to drink wine nor yet that by which the sibling of yours stumbles.*

22 You: faith that you hold, hold to yourself in the sight of the God. Blessed is the person not judging himself in what he approves.

23 But the wavering person, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not out of faithfulness. And anything that is not out of faithfulness is sin.

Notes

2 Many mss read ...languishing eats...

6 Some mss add and the person not minding the day, to the Lord he does not mind it

10 Other manuscripts read of the Christ

11 Other mss As I live, the Lord says that...

12 Some mss omit to the God

14 I.e. not holy (see for example 1 Macc 1:62, "And many in Israel were strengthened and were fortified by them to not eat common things."); or Except, to the person accounting something to be common, it is common to that person

15 Or lose

17 Or by

19 Or for, in regard to, toward

21 I.e. from the pagan animal sacrifices through which animal meat was most usually made available for sale to the public; many mss add or is ensnared or is made weak [or sick].