Rimljanom 14
1 Tistega, ki je v veri slaboten, sprejmite, toda ne k dvomljivim pričkanjem.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 Kajti nekdo veruje, da lahko jé vse stvari; drug, ki je šibek, jé zelišča.
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 Naj tisti, ki jé, ne prezira tistega, ki ne jé; in kdor ne jé, naj ne sodi tistega, ki jé; kajti Bog ga je sprejel.
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 Kdo si ti, da sodiš služabnika drugega moža? Svojemu lastnemu gospodarju stoji ali pade. Da, obdržan bo pokonci; kajti Bog ga je zmožen postaviti pokonci.
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 Nek človek čisla en dan nad drugim, drugi čisla vsak dan enako. Naj bo vsak v svojem lastnem mišljenju popolnoma prepričan.
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 Kdor upošteva dan, ga upošteva za Gospoda; kdor pa dneva ne upošteva, ga ne upošteva Gospodu. Kdor jé, jé za Gospoda, kajti zahvale daje Bogu; kdor pa ne jé, ne jé Gospodu in zahvalo daje Bogu.
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 Kajti nihče izmed nas ne živi zase in noben človek ne umira zase.
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 Kajti če živimo, živimo za Gospoda; in če umremo, umremo za Gospoda. Če torej živimo ali umremo, smo Gospodovi.
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 Kajti zato je Kristus tako umrl kakor vstal in oživel, da bi bil lahko Gospod tako mrtvih kakor živih.
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 Toda zakaj sodiš svojega brata? Ali zakaj zasmehuješ svojega brata? Kajti vsi bomo stali pred Kristusovim sodnim stolom.
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 Kajti pisano je: ›Kakor jaz živim, govori Gospod, bo vsako koleno pokleknilo k meni in vsak jezik bo priznal Boga.‹
For scripture says – “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.’”
12 Tako bo potem vsak izmed nas Bogu dal obračun o sebi.
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 Torej ne sodimo več drug drugega, temveč raje sodimo to, da noben človek ne postavi kamna spotike ali priložnosti, da pade, na pot svojega brata.
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 Vem in po Gospodu Jezusu sem prepričan, da ni nič sámo po sebi nečisto; toda temu, ki mêni, da je karkoli nečisto, je to zanj nečisto.
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 Toda če je tvoj brat užaloščen s tvojo jedjo, torej ne živiš v ljubezni. S svojo jedjo ne uničuj tega, za kogar je Kristus umrl.
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 Naj se potem o vašem dobrem ne govori zlo,
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 kajti Božje kraljestvo ni hrana in pijača, temveč pravičnost in mir in radost v Svetem Duhu.
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 Kajti kdor v teh stvareh služi Kristusu, je sprejemljiv za Boga in potrjen od ljudi.
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 Prizadevajmo si torej za stvari, ki delajo za mir in za stvari, s katerimi lahko eden izgrajuje drugega.
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 Zaradi hrane ne uničuj Božjega dela. Vse stvari so zares čiste; toda zlo je za tistega človeka, ki jé s spotiko.
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 Dobro je ne jesti mesa niti piti vina niti katerekoli stvari, s čimer se tvoj brat spotika ali je užaljen ali je postal slaboten.
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 Imaš vero? Imej jo zase pred Bogom. Srečen je, kdor sebe ne obsoja v tej stvari, ki jo on dopušča.
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 Kdor pa dvomi, je obsojen če jé, ker ne jé iz vere; kajti karkoli ni iz vere, je greh.
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.
