Romans

不可论断弟兄

1信心软弱的，你们要接纳，但不要辩论所疑惑的事。

2有人信百物都可吃；但那软弱的，只吃蔬菜。

3吃的人不可轻看不吃的人；不吃的人不可论断吃的人；因为 神已经收纳他了。

4你是谁，竟论断别人的仆人呢？他或站住或跌倒，自有他的主人在；而且他也必要站住，因为主能使他站住。

5有人看这日比那日强；有人看日日都是一样。只是各人心里要意见坚定。

6守日的人是为主守的。吃的人是为主吃的，因他感谢 神；不吃的人是为主不吃的，也感谢 神。

7我们没有一个人为自己活，也没有一个人为自己死。

8我们若活着，是为主而活；若死了，是为主而死。所以，我们或活或死总是主的人。

9因此，基督死了，又活了，为要作死人并活人的主。

10你这个人，为什么论断弟兄呢？又为什么轻看弟兄呢？因我们都要站在 神的台前。

11经上写着：主说：我凭着我的永生起誓： 万膝必向我跪拜； 万口必向我承认。

12这样看来，我们各人必要将自己的事在 神面前说明。

不可使弟兄跌倒

13所以，我们不可再彼此论断，宁可定意谁也不给弟兄放下绊脚跌人之物。

14我凭着主耶稣确知深信，凡物本来没有不洁净的；惟独人以为不洁净的，在他就不洁净了。

15你若因食物叫弟兄忧愁，就不是按着爱人的道理行。基督已经替他死，你不可因你的食物叫他败坏。

16不可叫你的善被人毁谤；

17因为 神的国不在乎吃喝，只在乎公义、和平，并圣灵中的喜乐。

18在这几样上服事基督的，就为 神所喜悦，又为人所称许。

19所以，我们务要追求和睦的事与彼此建立德行的事。

20不可因食物毁坏 神的工程。凡物固然洁净，但有人因食物叫人跌倒，就是他的罪了。

21无论是吃肉是喝酒，是什么别的事，叫弟兄跌倒，一概不做才好。

22你有信心，就当在 神面前守着。人在自己以为可行的事上能不自责，就有福了。

23若有疑心而吃的，就必有罪，因为他吃不是出于信心。凡不出于信心的都是罪。

The Law of Liberty

1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

2For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

3The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

6He who observes a special day does so to the Lord;he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

7For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

8If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

10Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

11It is written: “As surely as I live,says the Lord,every knee will bow before Me;every tongue will confess to God.”

12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

The Law of Love

13Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

15If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

16Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

19So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God.Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

23But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.