Romawa 14
1 Ku karɓi wanda bangaskiyarsa ba tă yi ƙarfi ba, amma fa kada ku hukunta shi a kan abubuwan da ake da shakka a kai ba.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 Bangaskiyar mutum ta yarda masa yă ci kome, amma wanda bangaskiyarsa ba tă yi ƙarfi ba, yakan ci kayan lambu ne kawai.
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 Mutumin da yake cin kowane irin abinci, kada yă rena wanda ba ya cin, wanda kuma ba ya cin kowane irin abinci, kada yă ga laifin mutumin da yake ci, domin Allah ya riga ya karɓe shi.
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 Kai wane ne har da za ka ga laifin bawan wani? Ko bawan yă yi aiki mai kyau, ko yă kāsa, ai, wannan ruwan maigidansa ne. Za a ma tsai da shi, domin Ubangiji yana da ikon tsai da shi.
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 Wani yakan ɗauki wata rana da daraja fiye da sauran ranaku; wani kuma yana ganin dukan ranakun ɗaya ne. Ya kamata kowa yă kasance da tabbaci a cikin zuciyarsa.
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 Wannan mai ɗaukan rana ɗaya da muhimmanci fiye da sauran, yana yin haka ne ga Ubangiji. Wannan mai cin nama, yana yin haka ne ga Ubangiji, gama yakan yi godiya ga Allah; wannan da ba ya ci kuwa, yana yin haka ne ga Ubangiji yana kuwa yin godiya ga Allah.
The person who observes a day, observes it to the Master’s honor. They, again, who eat meat eat it to the Master’s honor, for they give thanks to God; while the person who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master’s honor, and also gives thanks to God.
7 Gama ba waninmu da yake rayuwa wa kansa kaɗai, kuma ba waninmu da kan mutu don kansa kaɗai.
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 In muna rayuwa, muna rayuwa ne ga Ubangiji; in kuma muna mutuwa, muna mutuwa ne ga Ubangiji. Saboda haka, ko muna a raye ko muna a mace, mu na Ubangiji ne.
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 Saboda wannan ne Kiristi ya mutu, ya kuma sāke rayuwa domin yă zama Ubangiji na matattu da na masu rai.
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 Kai kuwa, don me kake ganin laifin ɗan’uwanka? Ko kuma don me kake rena ɗan’uwanka? Gama duk za mu tsaya a gaban kujerar shari’ar Allah.
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 A rubuce yake cewa, “‘Muddin ina raye,’ in ji Ubangiji, ‘kowace gwiwa za tă durƙusa a gabana; kowane harshe kuma zai furta wa Allah.’”
For scripture says – ‘“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.”’
12 Don haka kowannenmu zai ba da lissafin kansa ga Allah.
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 Saboda haka bari mu daina ba wa juna laifi. A maimakon, sai kowa yă yi niyya ba zai sa dutsen tuntuɓe ko abin sa fāɗuwa a hanyar ɗan’uwansa ba.
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 A matsayina na mai bin Ubangiji Yesu na tabbata ƙwarai cewa babu abincin da yake marar tsabta don kansa. Amma in wani ya ɗauka wani abu marar tsabta ne, to, a gare shi marar tsabta ne.
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 In kana ɓata wa ɗan’uwanka zuciya saboda abincin da kake ci, ba halin ƙauna kake nunawa ba ke nan. Kada abincin da kake ci yă zama hanyar lalatar da ɗan’uwanka wanda Kiristi ya mutu dominsa.
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 Kada ka bar abin da ka ɗauka a matsayi kyakkyawa yă zama abin zargi ga waɗansu.
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 Gama mulkin Allah ba batun ci da sha ba ne, sai dai na adalci, salama, da kuma farin ciki cikin Ruhu Mai Tsarki,
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 duk kuwa wanda yake bauta wa Kiristi a haka yana faranta wa Allah rai ne, yardajje kuma ga mutane.
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 Saboda haka sai mu yi iya ƙoƙari mu aikata abin da zai kawo salama da kuma ingantawa ga juna.
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 Kada ku lalatar da aikin Allah saboda abinci. Dukan abinci mai tsabta ne, sai dai ba daidai ba ne mutum yă ci abin da zai sa wani yă yi tuntuɓe.
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 Ya fi kyau kada ka ci nama ko ka sha ruwan inabi ko kuma ka yi wani abin da zai sa ɗan’uwanka yă fāɗi.
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 Bari duk ra’ayin da kake da shi game da wannan sha’ani yă kasance tsakaninka da Allah. Mai albarka ne wanda zuciyarsa ba tă ba shi laifi game da abin da shi da kansa ya ɗauka cewa daidai ne ba.
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 Amma wanda yake da shakka yakan jawo wa kansa hukunci ne in ya ci, domin yana ci ne ba bisa ga bangaskiya ba; kuma duk abin da bai zo daga bangaskiya ba zunubi ne.
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.
