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。

1And him who is weak in the faith receive ye — not to determinations of reasonings;

2one doth believe that he may eat all things — and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

3let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

4Thou — who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

5One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day [alike]; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

6He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard [it], and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

7For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;

8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

9for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.

10And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;

11for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord — to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'

12so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

13no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing [is] unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean — to that one [it is] unclean;

15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

17for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

18for he who in these things is serving the Christ, [is] acceptable to God and approved of men.

19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, [are] pure, but evil [is] to the man who is eating through stumbling.

21Right [it is] not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to [do anything] in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

22Thou hast faith! to thyself have [it] before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

23and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because [it is] not of faith; and all that [is] not of faith is sin.