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Romans 14 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Romans 1–16 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 14

Welcome one another and do not cause stumbling

Verse 14:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

Welcome the one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over reasonings.

Textual & Reception Notes

The person is weak in faith, not described as having no faith. Διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν concerns judging or disputing reasonings; the precise scope of the disagreements is developed through food and days.

Verse 14:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

One believes he may eat all things, but the weak person eats vegetables.

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Verse 14:3

Greek–English Saints Priority

Let not the one who eats despise the one who does not eat; and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who eats, for God welcomed him.

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Verse 14:4

Greek–English Saints Priority

Who are you who judges another’s household slave? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Textual & Reception Notes

Οἰκέτης is a household slave or servant. The first master belongs to the analogy; the source then explicitly says the Lord is able to establish the person.

Verse 14:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

One judges one day above another, but another judges every day alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.

Textual & Reception Notes

‘Alike’ supplies the contrast implicit in judging every day rather than one above another. No named Sabbath or festival is supplied.

NA28: ὃς μὲν [γὰρ] κρίνει, "For one judges" (SBLGNT without γάρ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT; NA28 would at most add "For".

Verse 14:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

The one who regards the day regards it for the Lord. And the one who eats eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat refrains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Textual & Reception Notes

The source lacks an added corresponding clause about one who does not observe the day. It does contain both eating and not eating, each with thanksgiving.

Verse 14:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself;

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Verse 14:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

for if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

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Verse 14:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

For to this end Christ died and lived, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Textual & Reception Notes

The source says Christ died and lived, with no separate resurrection verb here. The lordship over dead and living is explicit.

Verse 14:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

But why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat,

Textual & Reception Notes

The source reads God’s judgment seat, not Christ’s in this verse.

Verse 14:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend to Me, and every tongue will confess to God.”

Textual & Reception Notes

Ἐξομολογέομαι can express confession or praise; ‘confess to God’ retains the formal sense without specifying an unexpressed confession formula.

Verse 14:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

So each of us will give an account concerning himself.

Textual & Reception Notes

The source ends with ‘give an account,’ without an added ‘to God’ in this verse; the preceding context identifies the judgment.

NA28: ἄρα [οὖν] … δώσει [τῷ θεῷ], "So then each of us will give an account of himself to God" (SBLGNT ends at δώσει, a Holmes reading with WH margin); the rendering above follows SBLGNT; NA28 would read "… to God".

Verse 14:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but judge this instead: not to place a stumbling block or a snare for a brother.

Textual & Reception Notes

The repeated judge verb is used first for judging another and then for deciding not to cause stumbling. The draft preserves that wordplay.

Verse 14:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; except that to the one who reckons something unclean, to that person it is unclean.

Textual & Reception Notes

Κοινός, literally common, carries the food-related sense unclean here. Paul’s conviction and the eater’s contrary reckoning are both retained; the verse is not expanded into a universal theory that every moral question is decided by private belief.

Verse 14:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

For if your brother is grieved because of food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

Textual & Reception Notes

‘Destroy’ preserves the strong ἀπόλλυε; it is not reduced merely to causing annoyance. The person’s relation to Christ’s death grounds the instruction.

Verse 14:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

Therefore let not your good be blasphemed.

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Verse 14:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

For God’s kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;

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Verse 14:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

for the one who serves Christ in this is pleasing to God and approved by people.

Textual & Reception Notes

The source has singular ‘in this,’ not plural ‘in these things.’

Verse 14:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

So then, let us pursue the things of peace and the things of building up one another.

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Verse 14:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

Do not tear down God’s work for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the person who eats through a stumbling block.

Textual & Reception Notes

‘Through a stumbling block’ is a compressed construction. It can concern eating so as to cause another to stumble or eating with one’s own conscience compromised; this draft leaves the relation visible for review.

Verse 14:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles or is ensnared or becomes weak.

Textual & Reception Notes

This source includes all three results: stumbles, is ensnared, becomes weak. They are marked with apparatus referral signs in Greek, not actual brackets, and are retained as main text.

NA28: ends the verse at προσκόπτει, "stumbles" (SBLGNT adds ἢ σκανδαλίζεται ἢ ἀσθενεῖ with Tregelles and RP); the rendering above follows SBLGNT; NA28 would read "by which your brother stumbles".

Verse 14:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself in what he approves.

Textual & Reception Notes

Faith here is the conviction under discussion concerning permissible conduct. The direction to keep it before God is not paraphrased as a prohibition on all public confession of Christian belief.

Verse 14:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

But the one who doubts, if he eats, has been condemned, because it is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Textual & Reception Notes

The perfect ‘has been condemned’ and the reason ‘not from faith’ remain. The universal concluding sentence is retained in its immediate argument rather than narrowed by an inserted food-only qualifier.