羅馬書 14
1 信德軟弱的人，你們該容納，不要為意見而爭論。
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 有人以為什麼都可吃，但那軟弱的人只吃蔬菜。
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 那吃的，不要輕視不吃的；不吃的，也不要判斷吃的，因為天主已接納了他。
The person who eats meat must not despise the person who abstains from it; nor must the person who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received them.
4 你是誰，你竟敢判斷別人的家僕？他或站立，或跌倒，都由他自己的主人管；但他必站得住，因為主能夠使他站得住。
Who are you, that you should pass judgment on the servant of another? Their standing or falling concerns their own master. And stand they will, for their Master can enable them to stand.
5 有人以為這日比那日強，但也有人以為昌都一樣；各人對自己的心思應堅信不移才好!
Again, one person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another considers all days to be alike. Everyone ought to be fully convinced in their own mind.
6 那遵守日子的，是為主而遵守；那吃的，是為主而吃，因為他感謝天主；那不吃的，也是為主而不吃，他也感謝天主。
The person who observes a day, observes it to the Master’s honour. They, again, who eat meat eat it to the Master’s honour, for they give thanks to God; while the person who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master’s honour, and also gives thanks to God.
7 因為我們中間沒有一人是為自己而生的，也沒有一人是為自己而死的；
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 因為我們或者生，是為主而生，或者死，是為主而死；所以我們或生或死，都是屬於主。
for, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
9 因為基督死而復生了，正是為作生者和死者的主。
The purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this – that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
10 你為什麼判斷你的弟兄？或者，你為什麼輕視你的弟兄？我們眾人都要站在天主的審判台前，
I would ask the one “Why do you judge other followers of the Lord?” And I would ask the other “Why do you despise them?” For we will all stand before the court of God.
11 因為經上記載說：『我指著我自己起誓──上主的誓語：眾膝都要向我跪拜，眾舌都要讚頌天主。』
For scripture says – “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.’”
12 這樣看起來，我們每人都要向天主交自己的賬。
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 因此，我們不可再彼此判斷了，反之，你們應拿定主意：總不可使弟兄失足或跌倒。
Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve – never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in the way of a fellow follower of the Lord.
14 在耶穌基督內，我知道，並深信：沒有什麼本身是不潔的；除非有人想什麼是不潔的，那東西為他才是不潔的。
Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is defiling in itself. A thing is “defiling” only to the person who holds it to be so.
15 如果你因著食物使你的兄弟心亂，你便不是按照愛德行事。基督為他死了，你不可因著你的食物使他喪亡，
If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!
16 所以你們不可使你們的優點受到誹謗。
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 其實天主的國並不在於吃喝，而在於義德、平安以及在聖神內的喜樂：
For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
18 凡是按這原則事奉基督的，才為天主喜悅，為眾人所稱許；
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 所以我們該追求平安的事，以及彼此建立的事，
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 不可為了食物的緣故，而摧毀天主的工程。一切固然都是潔淨的，但若人吃了，能使人失足，這為他便是惡事了。
Do not undo God’s work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is “clean,” yet, if a person eats so as to put a stumbling-block in the way of others, they do wrong.
21 更好是不吃肉，不喝酒，不什麼能使你弟兄跌倒的事。
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your fellow follower of the Lord.
22 你有信心，就在天主前為你自己保有罷! 那在自己認為可行的事上，問心無愧，才是有福的。
As for yourself – keep this conviction of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy the person who never has to condemn themselves in regard to something they think right!
23 但誰若懷著疑心吃了，便被判有罪，因為這不是出於信心做的：凡不出於信心做的，就是罪。
The person, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if they still eat, because their doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.
