Romans 14-16 (Darby Translation)

Romans 14

 ¹Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to [the] determining of questions of reasoning.

 ²One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

 ³Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

 ⁴Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

 ⁵One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

 ⁶He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

 ⁷For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

 ⁸For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.

 ⁹For to this [end] Christ has died and lived [again], that he might rule over both dead and living.

 ¹⁰But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

 ¹¹For it is written, *I* live, saith [the] Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

 ¹²So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God.

 ¹³Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

 ¹⁴I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man [it is] unclean.

 ¹⁵For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

 ¹⁶Let not then your good be evil spoken of;

 ¹⁷for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in [the] Holy Spirit.

 ¹⁸For he that in this serves the Christ [is] acceptable to God and approved of men.

 ¹⁹So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

 ²⁰For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil to that man who eats while stumbling [in doing so].

 ²¹[It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

 ²²Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

 ²³But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because [it is] not of faith; but whatever [is] not of faith is sin.

Romans 15

 ¹But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

 ²Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

 ³For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

 ⁴For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

 ⁵Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

 ⁶that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 ⁷Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to [the] glory of God.

 ⁸For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

 ⁹and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among [the] nations, and will sing to thy name.

 ¹⁰And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

 ¹¹And again, Praise the Lord, all [ye] nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

 ¹²And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall [the] nations hope.

 ¹³Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit.

 ¹⁴But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

 ¹⁵But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

 ¹⁶for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.

 ¹⁷I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

 ¹⁸For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed,

 ¹⁹in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

 ²⁰and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

 ²¹but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

 ²²Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

 ²³But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,

 ²⁴whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

 ²⁵but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

 ²⁶for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem.

 ²⁷They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

 ²⁸Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

 ²⁹But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in [the] fulness of [the] blessing of Christ.

 ³⁰But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

 ³¹that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

 ³²in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.

 ³³And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Romans 16

 ¹But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

 ²that ye may receive her in [the] Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

 ³Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus,

 ⁴(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

 ⁵and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is [the] first-fruits of Asia for Christ.

 ⁶Salute Maria, who laboured much for you.

 ⁷Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

 ⁸Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

 ⁹Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

 ¹⁰Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who belong to Aristobulus.

 ¹¹Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.

 ¹²Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in [the] Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in [the] Lord.

 ¹³Salute Rufus, chosen in [the] Lord; and his mother and mine.

 ¹⁴Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them.

 ¹⁵Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.

 ¹⁶Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

 ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.

 ¹⁸For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

 ¹⁹For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise [as] to that which is good, and simple [as] to evil.

 ²⁰But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

 ²¹Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

 ²²I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in [the] Lord.

 ²³Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus.

 ²⁴The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.

 ²⁵Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery, as to which silence has been kept in [the] times of the ages,

 ²⁶but [which] has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

 ²⁷[the] only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.