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1. Whoever is weak in faith, give them a hand,
and do not be divided in your opinions.
2. For there are those who believe in eating everything and the weak are vegetarian.
3. The one who eats everything should not criticize the one who does not, and the
one who does not eat everything, should not judge. For they all have communion with
God.
4. Who are you to judge the servant that is not yours? If he stands, he stands for
his master, and if he falls, he falls for his master. Thus he upholds whom he upholds,
for it is in his hands whom he raises.
5. There are those who judge one day by the next.* And there are those who judge
all one's days. Every human being justifies themselves through their own perspective.
6. Those who approach each day on its own merits, do so in the interest of their
master.* And however someone eats, they do so according to their master and in confession
to their God.*
7. For there is no human being among us who lives for themselves. And there is no
human being who dies for themselves.
8. Because if we live, we live for our Lord, and if we die, we die for our Lord.
And if we live thus and if we die, we belong to our Lord.
9. Because of that, Christ also died and lived and rose, so he may be Lord of the
dead and the living.
10. You, however, why do you judge your brother? Therefore, you too, why do you discriminate
against your brother? For we are all destined to stand before the podium of Christ.
11. As is written in Scriptures,
"I am Life, to me bows whoever kneels.
And to me confesses every tongue."
12. Hence every human being among us shall
answer on their own behalf to God.
13. Henceforth, do not judge one another, except deem it fitting that you do not
place a stumbling block before your brother.
14. For I know and I am assured* by Lord Jesus Christ, that nothing which defiles
from him ever ensues. Except those that which they regard as defiling, to them alone
it defiles.
15. If then because of food you discriminate against your brother, you are not following
the course of love. Do not abandon someone for whom Christ died, because of your
diet.
16. And do not blaspheme our blessing.
17. For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, except righteousness and peace
and joy in the holy Spirit.
18. For whoever serves Christ through these, is praising God, and is approved* before
humanity.
19. So let us now pursue peace and those who build up one another.
20. And the service of God is not set aside* because of diet. For everything from
Him is clean. Except it is defiling to human beings consuming that which makes them
stumble.
21. It is beautiful when someone does not eat meat and not drink wine and nothing
that makes our brother stumble.
22. You who possess faith, must stand by yourself before God. Blessed are they who
do not judge themselves by what they have chosen.
23. For them that have doubts and eat, are accountable because they betray their
faith.* For whatever is not of faith is of sin.
*14:5 Lit. Ar. id. expression: "Judge day
from day," or, live day by day.
*14:6.1 Lit. Ar. id. construction: "And that not consider of the day, to his/her
master do not consider."
*14:6.2 Lit. Ar. id. construction: "And who eats to his/her master he/she eats
and to God confesses."
*14:18 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Remains."
*14:20 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Loosened."
*14:23 Lit. Ar. id. construction: "For those that divide and eat are responsible
to it because that not in faith."
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