Romanos 14
1 Al enfermo en la fe recibíd le, sin andar en contiendas de opiniones.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 Porque uno cree que se ha de comer de todas cosas: otro enfermo come legumbres.
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 El que come, no menosprecie al que no come; y el que no come, no juzgue al que come; porque Dios le ha recibido.
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 ¿Tú, quién eres, que juzgas el siervo ajeno? Para su señor está en pie, o cae; mas, se afirmará: que poderoso es Dios para afirmarle.
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 Uno juzga que hay diferencia entre día y día: otro juzga iguales todos los días. Cada uno esté asegurado en su mismo ánimo.
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 El que hace caso del día, lo hace para el Señor; y el que no hace caso del día, para el Señor no lo hace. El que come, para el Señor come; porque da gracias a Dios; y el que no come, para el Señor no come, y da gracias a Dios.
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 Porque ninguno de nosotros vive para sí; y ninguno muere para sí.
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 Que si vivimos, para el Señor vivimos; y si morimos, para el Señor morimos. Así que, o que vivamos, o que muramos, del Señor somos.
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 Porque Cristo para esto murió, y resucitó, y volvió a vivir, para enseñorearse así de los muertos como de los que viven.
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 Mas tú ¿por qué juzgas a tu hermano? O tú también ¿por qué menosprecias a tu hermano? porque todos hemos de comparecer delante del tribunal de Cristo.
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 Pues escrito está: Vivo yo, dice el Señor, que a mí se doblará toda rodilla; y toda lengua confesará a Dios.
For scripture says – “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.’”
12 De manera que cada uno de nosotros dará a Dios razón de sí.
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 Así que, no juzguemos más los unos a los otros; mas antes juzgád esto, que nadie ponga tropiezo al hermano, o ocasión de caer.
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 Yo sé, y estoy persuadido en el Señor Jesús, que nada hay de suyo inmundo; mas a aquel que piensa ser inmunda alguna cosa, a aquel le es inmunda.
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 Empero si por causa de tu comida tu hermano es contristado, ya no andas conforme a la caridad. No eches a perder con tu comida a aquel por el cual Cristo murió.
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 Que no se hable mal, pues, de vuestro bien:
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 Porque el reino de Dios no es comida ni bebida; sino justicia, y paz, y gozo en el Espíritu Santo.
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 Porque el que en esto sirve a Cristo, agrada a Dios, y es acepto a los hombres.
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 Sigamos pues lo que hace a la paz, y a la edificación de los unos a los otros.
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 No destruyas la obra de Dios por causa de la comida. Todas las cosas a la verdad son limpias; mas malo es para el hombre que come con ofensa.
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 Bueno es no comer carne, ni beber vino, ni nada en que tu hermano tropiece, o se ofenda, o se enflaquezca.
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 ¿Tú, tienes fe? Tén la contigo delante de Dios. Bienaventurado el que no se condena a sí mismo con lo que aprueba.
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 Mas el que duda, si comiere, es condenado, porque no comió con fe; y todo lo que no es de fe, es pecado.
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.
