Romanos 14

1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written,

"‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.

Every tongue will confess to God.’"✝14:11 Isaiah 45:23

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

13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. 14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don’t let your good be slandered, 17 for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. 19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.*14:26 TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.

Kaua e Whakawākia ētahi atu

1 Ko te tangata he ngoikore te whakapono, manakohia, kauaka ia ki ngā tautohe whakaaro. 2 Ko tētahi hoki e whakapono ana he pai ngā mea katoa hei kai māna. Ko te tangata ia he ngoikore tōna whakapono e kai otaota ana. 3 Kaua te tangata e kai ana e whakahāwea ki te tangata kāhore e kai, kaua hoki te tangata kāhore e kai e whakahē i te tangata e kai ana. Kua manakohia hoki ia e te Atua. 4 Ko wai koe e whakahē nā i te pononga a tērā? Mā tōna rangatira ia e whakatū, e whakahinga rānei. Inā, ka whakatūria anō ia, e taea hoki ia e te Atua te whakatū.

5 Ki te whakaaro o tētahi, nui atu tētahi rā i tētahi, ki tō tētahi whakaaro ia he rite katoa ngā rā. Kia ū mārire ngā whakaaro o tētahi, o tētahi. 6 Ko te tangata e whakaaro ana ki te rā, he whakaaro ki te Ariki tōna whakaaro; ko te tangata e kai ana, he whakaaro ki te Ariki tāna kai, e whakawhetai atu ana hoki ia ki te Atua; ko te tangata kāhore e kai, he whakaaro ki te Ariki tāna kore e kai, e whakawhetai ana anō ia ki te Atua. 7 Ehara hoki i te mea ki a ia ake anō te ora o tētahi o tātou, ehara hoki i te mea ki a ia ake te mate o tētahi. 8 Tā te mea, ahakoa ora, e ora ana tātou ki te Ariki; ahakoa mate, e mate ana tātou ki te Ariki. Nā, ahakoa ora tātou, mate rānei, nā te Ariki tātou.

9 Ko te mea hoki tēnei i mate ai a te Karaiti, i ara ake ai anō, i ora ai anō, kia waiho ai ia hei Ariki ngātahi mō te hunga mate, mō te hunga ora. 10 Ko koe nā, he aha koe i whakahē ai i tōu teina? Me koe nā hoki, he aha koe i whakahāwea ai ki tōu teina? E tū katoa hoki tātou ki te nohoanga whakawā o te Atua. 11 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi:

" ‘E ora ana ahau,’ e ai tā te Ariki,

‘e piko katoa ngā turi ki ahau,

e whakaae anō hoki ngā arero katoa ki te Atua.’ "

12 Āe rā, ka kōrerotia e tēnei, e tēnei o tātou te tikanga o āna mahi ki te Atua.

Kei Hinga tētahi i a Koe

13 Nā, kāti tā tātou whakahē tētahi i tētahi. Engari, ko tēnei kia rite i a koutou, kia kaua e whakatakotoria he tūtukitanga waewae, he take whakahinga rānei mō tōna teina. 14 E mōhio ana ahau, ū tonu tōku whakaaro i roto i te Ariki, i a Īhu, kāhore he mea nōna ake anō tōna noa. Hāunga ia ki te mea tētahi he noa tētahi mea, e noa anō ki a ia. 15 Ki te mea hoki nā te kai i pōuri ai tōu teina, kāhore e mau ana tāu haere i runga i te aroha. Kei mate i tāu kai te tangata i mate nei a te Karaiti mōna. 16 Nā, kei kōrerotia kinotia tō koutou pai. 17 Ehara hoki te rangatiratanga o te Atua i te kai, i te inu; engari he tika, he rangimārie, he hari i roto i te Wairua Tapu. 18 Ko te tangata hoki ko ēnei hei mahinga māna ki a te Karaiti, ka āhuarekatia ia e te Atua, ka paingia hoki e ngā tāngata.

19 Nā, kia whai tātou i ngā mea e mau ai te rongo, i ngā mea anō hoki e hangā ai te pai o tētahi, o tētahi. 20 Kaua e waiho te kai hei whakahoro mō tā te Atua mahi. He mā hoki ngā mea katoa; otiia, he kino ki te tangata e kai ana me te whakahē tōna ngākau. 21 He mea pai tonu kia kaua e kai kikokiko, kia kaua e inu wāina, aha rānei e tūtuki ai tōu teina.

22 Ko te whakapono i a koe nā, waiho i a koe anō i te aroaro o te Atua. Ka hari te tangata kāhore e whakatau i te hē ki a ia anō mō te mea i whakapaia e ia māna. 23 Ki te ruarua ia tētahi, ka tau te hē ki a ia ki te kai ia; nō te mea ehara i te kai whakapono. He hara hoki ngā mea katoa kīhai nei i puta ake i te whakapono.