[Romans 14]

 

             ^14:1 But receive^° for yourselves the one who is weak in the faith, yet not ^*for the discernings of his reasonings. ^14:2 One has faith to eat all things, but the one who is weak eats herbs. ^14:3 Do not let the one who eats, scorn the one who does not eat; and do not let the one who does not eat, judge the one who eats, for^* God himself has received him. ^14:4 Who are you who is judging another’s domestic servant? He stands or falls to his own lord. Now, he will be made to stand up, for^* God is able to stand him up. ^14:5 There is one who indeed is judging a day beside another day, but one is judging every day the same; let each one be fully assured in his own mind. ^14:6 He who is mindful of the day, is mindful of it to the Lord; and he who is not mindful of the day, is not mindful of it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for^* he gives-thanks to God. And he who does not eat, he does not eat to the Lord, and gives-thanks to God. ^14:7 For^* none of us is living to himself, and none dies to himself. ^14:8 For^* in both, if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; therefore, in both, if we live or if we die, we are the Lord’s. ^14:9 For^* Christ both died and rose^* up and lived ^*for this, in-order-that he might have lordship over both the dead and those living. ^14:10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you scorn your brother? For^* we will all be standing-before the judicial-seat of Christ. ^14:11 For^* it has been written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, Every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.’ {Isa 45:23} ^14:12 Therefore, consequently^*, each of us will be giving an account concerning himself to God.

 

             ^14:13 Therefore, we should no longer judge^° one another, but rather judge this: you are not to place a stumbling block, or offense, in the way of the brother. ^14:14 I know, and have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is desecrated {Or: unclean} through itself, except to the one counting something to be desecrated, to that one it is desecrated. ^14:15 But if your brother is made sorrowful because of food, you are no longer walking according-to love^*. Do not destroy that man with your food, on behalf of whom Christ died. ^14:16 Therefore, do not let your^° good thing be blasphemed; ^14:17 for^* the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ^14:18 For^* the one who is serving^* Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men. ^14:19 Therefore, consequently^*, we may pursue the things of peace, and the things from the building up that is toward one another. ^14:20 Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block. ^14:21 It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak. ^14:22 Do you have faith? Have {English: Keep} it to yourself in God’s sight! The fortunate one is not judging himself in what he is approving. ^14:23 But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because he does not eat out-of faith, and everything which is not from faith is sin.

 

             ^14:24 Now to the one who is able to establish you^° according-to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according-to the revelation of the mystery, has been kept-silent in times everlasting, ^14:25 but now, was manifested, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according-to the commandment of the everlasting God, was made known to all the nations, into the obedience of the faith; ^14:26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom the glory is forever. Amen.