1 En neem hom aan wat swak is in die geloof, nie om oor sy gevoelens te oordeel nie.
2 Die een glo dat 'n mens alles mag eet, maar hy wat swak is, eet groente.
3 Hy wat eet, moet hom wat nie eet, nie verag nie; en hy wat nie eet, moet hom wat eet, nie oordeel nie, want God het hom aangeneem.
4 Wie is jy wat die huiskneg van 'n ander oordeel? Hy staan of val met betrekking tot sy eie heer; maar hy sal staande bly, want God is magtig om hom staande te hou.
5 Die een ag die een dag bo die ander, die ander ag al die dae gelyk. Laat elkeen in sy eie gemoed ten volle oortuig wees.
6 Hy wat die dag waarneem, neem dit waar tot eer van die Here; en hy wat die dag nie waarneem nie, neem dit nie waar nie tot eer van die Here; en wie eet, eet tot eer van die Here, want hy dank God; en wie nie eet nie, eet nie tot eer van die Here, en hy dank God.
7 Want niemand van ons leef vir homself nie en niemand sterf vir homself nie.
8 Want as ons lewe, leef ons tot eer van die Here; en as ons sterwe, sterf ons tot eer van die Here; of ons dan lewe en of ons sterwe, ons behoort aan die Here.
9 Want hiervoor het Christus ook gesterwe en opgestaan en weer lewend geword, om oor dode sowel as lewende te heers.
10 Maar jy, waarom oordeel jy jou broeder? Of jy ook, waarom verag jy jou broeder? Want ons sal almal voor die regterstoel van Christus gestel word.
11 Want daar is geskrywe: So waaragtig as Ek leef, sê die Here, voor My sal elke knie buig, en elke tong sal God bely.
12 So sal elkeen van ons dan vir homself aan God rekenskap gee.
13 Laat ons dan mekaar nie meer oordeel nie, maar besluit d¡t liewer, om nie die broeder 'n hindernis of struikelblok in die weg te lê nie.
14 Ek weet en is oortuig in die Here Jesus dat niks op sigself onrein is nie, maar hy wat reken dat iets onrein is, vir hom is dit onrein.
15 Maar as jou broeder deur voedsel gegrief word, dan wandel jy nie meer volgens die liefde nie. Moenie deur jou voedsel hom te gronde rig vir wie Christus gesterf het nie.
16 Laat dan van die goeie wat aan julle behoort, nie kwaad gespreek word nie.
17 Want die koninkryk van God is nie spys en drank nie, maar geregtigheid en vrede en blydskap in die Heilige Gees.
18 Want hy wat Christus hierin dien, is aan God welgevallig en by die mense geag.
19 Laat ons dan najaag wat tot vrede en onderlinge stigting dien.
20 Moenie ter wille van voedsel die werk van God afbreek nie. Alles is wel rein, maar dit is verkeerd vir 'n mens om te eet as dit tot aanstoot is.
21 Dit is goed om geen vleis te eet of wyn te drink of iets te doen waardeur jou broeder aanstoot neem of struikel, of waarin hy swak is nie.
22 Het jy geloof? Behou dit vir jouself voor die aangesig van God. Gelukkig is hy wat homself nie oordeel in wat hy vir geoorloof ag nie.
23 Maar hy wat twyfel as hy eet, is veroordeel, omdat dit nie uit die geloof is nie; en alles wat nie uit die geloof is nie, is sonde.
1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
4 Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.
5 This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.
6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.
8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.
9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
11 For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.
12 So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
13 Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.
14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:
17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.
19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.
20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.
23 But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.