Romans 14 #catechesis/bible/romans
[!abstract] The strong must bear with the weak. Cautions against judging and giving scandal.
Book: Romans · ← Romans 13 · Romans 15 →
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GR Τὸν δὲ ἀσθενοῦντα τῇ πίστει προσλαμβάνεσθε, μὴ εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν.
LA Infirmum autem in fide assumite, non in disceptationibus cogitationum.
EN Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.
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GR ὃς μὲν πιστεύει φαγεῖν πάντα, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενῶν λάχανα ἐσθίει.
LA Alius enim credit se manducare omnia: qui autem infirmus est, olus manducet.
EN For one believes that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.
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[!note]- Eat all things.
Viz., without observing the distinction of clean and unclean meats, prescribed by the law of Moses: which was now no longer obligatory. Some weak Christians, converted from among the Jews, as we here gather from the apostle, made a scruple of eating such meats as were deemed unclean by the law; such as swine’s flesh, etc., which the stronger sort of Christians did eat without scruple. Now the apostle, to reconcile them together, exhorts the former not to judge or condemn the latter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to take care not to despise or scandalize their weaker brethren, either by bringing them to eat what in their conscience they think they should not, or by giving them such offence, as to endanger the driving them thereby from the Christian religion.
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GR ὁ ἐσθίων τὸν μὴ ἐσθίοντα μὴ ἐξουθενείτω, ὁ δὲ μὴ ἐσθίων τὸν ἐσθίοντα μὴ κρινέτω, ὁ θεὸς γὰρ αὐτὸν προσελάβετο.
LA Is qui manducat, non manducantem non spernat: et qui non manducat, manducantem non judicet: Deus enim illum assumpsit.
EN Let not him that eats despise him that eats not: and he that eats not, let him not judge him that eats. For God has taken him to him.
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GR σὺ τίς εἶ ὁ κρίνων ἀλλότριον οἰκέτην; τῷ ἰδίῳ κυρίῳ στήκει ἢ πίπτει: σταθήσεται δέ, δυνατεῖ γὰρ ὁ κύριος στῆσαι αὐτόν.
LA Tu quis es, qui judicas alienum servum? domino suo stat, aut cadit: stabit autem: potens est enim Deus statuere illum.
EN Who are you that judge another man’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.
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GR ὃς μὲν γὰρ κρίνει ἡμέραν παρ’ ἡμέραν, ὃς δὲ κρίνει πᾶσαν ἡμέραν: ἕκαστος ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ νοῒ πληροφορείσθω.
LA Nam alius judicat diem inter diem: alius autem judicat omnem diem: unusquisque in suo sensu abundet.
EN For one judges between day and day: and another judges every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.
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GR ὁ φρονῶν τὴν ἡμέραν κυρίῳ φρονεῖ: καὶ ὁ ἐσθίων κυρίῳ ἐσθίει, εὐχαριστεῖ γὰρ τῷ θεῷ: καὶ ὁ μὴ ἐσθίων κυρίῳ οὐκ ἐσθίει, καὶ εὐχαριστεῖ τῷ θεῷ.
LA Qui sapit diem, Domino sapit, et qui manducat, Domino manducat: gratias enim agit Deo. Et qui non manducat, Domino non manducat, et gratias agit Deo.
EN He that regards the day regards it unto the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord: for he gives thanks to God. And he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not and gives thanks to God.
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GR οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἑαυτῷ ζῇ, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἑαυτῷ ἀποθνῄσκει:
LA Nemo enim nostrum sibi vivit, et nemo sibi moritur.
EN For none of us lives to himself: and no man dies to himself.
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GR ἐάν τε γὰρ ζῶμεν, τῷ κυρίῳ ζῶμεν, ἐάν τε ἀποθνῄσκωμεν, τῷ κυρίῳ ἀποθνῄσκομεν. ἐάν τε οὖν ζῶμεν ἐάν τε ἀποθνῄσκωμεν, τοῦ κυρίου ἐσμέν.
LA Sive enim vivemus, Domino vivimus: sive morimur, Domino morimur. Sive ergo vivimus, sive morimur, Domini sumus.
EN For 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.
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GR εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ Χριστὸς ἀπέθανεν καὶ ἔζησεν ἵνα καὶ νεκρῶν καὶ ζώντων κυριεύσῃ.
LA In hoc enim Christus mortuus est, et resurrexit: ut et mortuorum et vivorum dominetur.
EN For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
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GR σὺ δὲ τί κρίνεις τὸν ἀδελφόν σου; ἢ καὶ σὺ τί ἐξουθενεῖς τὸν ἀδελφόν σου; πάντες γὰρ παραστησόμεθα τῷ βήματι τοῦ θεοῦ:
LA Tu autem quid judicas fratrem tuum? aut tu quare spernis fratrem tuum? omnes enim stabimus ante tribunal Christi.
EN But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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GR γέγραπται γάρ, ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει κύριος, ὅτι ἐμοὶ κάμψει πᾶν γόνυ, καὶ πᾶσα γλῶσσα ἐξομολογήσεται τῷ θεῷ.
LA Scriptum est enim: Vivo ego, dicit Dominus, quoniam mihi flectetur omne genu: et omnis lingua confitebitur Deo.
EN For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God.
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GR ἄρα οὖν ἕκαστος ἡμῶν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ λόγον δώσει τῷ θεῷ.
LA Itaque unusquisque nostrum pro se rationem reddet Deo.
EN Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.
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[!note]- Between day, etc…
Still observing the sabbaths and festivals of the law.
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GR Μηκέτι οὖν ἀλλήλους κρίνωμεν: ἀλλὰ τοῦτο κρίνατε μᾶλλον, τὸ μὴ τιθέναι πρόσκομμα τῷ ἀδελφῷ ἢ σκάνδαλον.
LA Non ergo amplius invicem judicemus: sed hoc judicate magis, ne ponatis offendiculum fratri, vel scandalum.
EN Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumbling block or a scandal in your brother’s way.
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GR οἶδα καὶ πέπεισμαι ἐν κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ ὅτι οὐδὲν κοινὸν δι’ ἑαυτοῦ: εἰ μὴ τῷ λογιζομένῳ τι κοινὸν εἶναι, ἐκείνῳ κοινόν.
LA Scio, et confido in Domino Jesu, quia nihil commune per ipsum, nisi ei qui existimat quid commune esset, illi commune est.
EN I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteems anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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GR εἰ γὰρ διὰ βρῶμα ὁ ἀδελφός σου λυπεῖται, οὐκέτι κατὰ ἀγάπην περιπατεῖς. μὴ τῷ βρώματί σου ἐκεῖνον ἀπόλλυε ὑπὲρ οὗ Χριστὸς ἀπέθανεν.
LA Si enim propter cibum frater tuus contristatur, jam non secundum caritatem ambulas. Noli cibo tuo illum perdere, pro quo Christus mortuus est.
EN For if, because of your meat, your brother be grieved, you walk not now according to charity. Destroy not him with your meat, for whom Christ died.
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GR μὴ βλασφημείσθω οὖν ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαθόν.
LA Non ergo blasphemetur bonum nostrum.
EN Let not then our good be evil spoken of.
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GR οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ βρῶσις καὶ πόσις, ἀλλὰ δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ χαρὰ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ:
LA Non est enim regnum Dei esca et potus: sed justitia, et pax, et gaudium in Spiritu Sancto:
EN For the kingdom of God is not food and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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GR ὁ γὰρ ἐν τούτῳ δουλεύων τῷ Χριστῷ εὐάρεστος τῷ θεῷ καὶ δόκιμος τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.
LA qui enim in hoc servit Christo, placet Deo, et probatus est hominibus.
EN For he that in this serves Christ pleases God and is approved of men.
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GR ἄρα οὖν τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης διώκωμεν καὶ τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τῆς εἰς ἀλλήλους:
LA Itaque quæ pacis sunt, sectemur: et quæ ædificationis sunt, in invicem custodiamus.
EN Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.
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GR μὴ ἕνεκεν βρώματος κατάλυε τὸ ἔργον τοῦ θεοῦ. πάντα μὲν καθαρά, ἀλλὰ κακὸν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ διὰ προσκόμματος ἐσθίοντι.
LA Noli propter escam destruere opus Dei, omnia quidem sunt munda: sed malum est homini, qui per offendiculum manducat.
EN Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eats with offence.
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GR καλὸν τὸ μὴ φαγεῖν κρέα μηδὲ πιεῖν οἶνον μηδὲ ἐν ᾧ ὁ ἀδελφός σου προσκόπτει.
LA Bonum est non manducare carnem, et non bibere vinum, neque in quo frater tuus offenditur, aut scandalizatur, aut infirmatur.
EN It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor anything whereby your brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.
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GR σὺ πίστιν ἣν ἔχεις κατὰ σεαυτὸν ἔχε ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ. μακάριος ὁ μὴ κρίνων ἑαυτὸν ἐν ᾧ δοκιμάζει:
LA Tu fidem habes? penes temetipsum habe coram Deo. Beatus qui non judicat semetipsum in eo quod probat.
EN Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he that condemns not himself in that which he allows.
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GR ὁ δὲ διακρινόμενος ἐὰν φάγῃ κατακέκριται, ὅτι οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως: πᾶν δὲ ὃ οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως ἁμαρτία ἐστίν.
LA Qui autem discernit, si manducaverit, damnatus est: quia non ex fide. Omne autem, quod non est ex fide, peccatum est.
EN But he that discerns, if he eat, is condemned; because not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.
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[!note]- Discerns…
That is, distinguishes between meats, and eats against his conscience, what he deems unclean.
[!note]- Of faith…
By faith is here understood judgment and conscience: to act against which is always a sin.
