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。

1Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

2For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

3Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

4Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

5For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day: let every man abound in his own sense.

6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that eateth, eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to God.

7For none of us liveth to himself; and no man dieth to himself.

8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

9For to this end Christ died and rose again; that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

11For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

12Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.

13Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother’s way.

14I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

16Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

18For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth God, and is approved of men.

19Therefore let us follow after the things that are of peace; and keep the things that are of edification one towards another.

20Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

21It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended, or scandalized, or made weak.

22Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

23But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.