Romans 14:1-23
Paul continues to teach how all holy-people (Christians, saints, people who have received the gift of holy spirit) are to walk (behave, conduct themselves) during the everyday living of life with one-another, even though everyone may not function in exactly the same manner while awaiting Christ's coming to gather all the holy-people together with him.
Romans 14:1-3:
14:1But the (person) being weak with the belief you must take-towards-yourselves, not into through-judgments of through-calculations; .2indeed (there is) he-who believes to eat all (foods) but the (person) being weak must eat tilled-herbs - .3the (person) eating must not despise the (person) not eating, but the (person) not eating must not judge the (person) eating for God took him towards-Himself.
You must take to yourselves (receive, as taking by the hand and drawing towards yourselves)...
- the holy-person who is weak (without-strength, infirm, feeble)
- with/in the belief ("belief" is the information that God makes known to people to have confidence-in with assured certainty and surety - in this context it is the faith, the trust with respect to what God says regarding all that God by means of the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished for us - including how we are to live our lives during the present age which is after the day of Pentecost when the gift of holy spirit was first made available),
- but you must not do this with a view to/for judgments made through-and-through (thorough judgments, separating or differentiating decisions, wholly distinguishing or discerning, judging the differences, the distinctions)
- pertaining to through-calculations (regarding reckonings through-and-through, thorough reasonings, disputes, logical computations - don't spend your time trying to figure out how to balance the different calculations that people make regarding certain things).
Indeed (on the one hand) there is...
- he who believes (has faith) to eat all different kinds of food,
...but (on the other hand) there is...
- the person who is being weak (with the belief, as verse 1 above) who must eat plants that are tilled in the ground (such as garden herbs, vegetables or greens) -
...and even though there are people who believe differently regarding the eating of certain foods (whether it is because of their old thinking-pattern spilling-over in their minds from the law of Moses, or whether it is to make sure so as not to eat anything associated with idol worship, or whether it is because of some medicinal-reasoning or health-related thinking)...
- the person who is presently eating foods
- must not despise (think nothing of, treat with contempt, set as naught)
- the person who is not eating these foods,
- but the person who is not presently eating foods
- must not judge (not make a decision on)
- the person who is eating - why not? -
- in truth, God received him to Himself (as taking him by the hand and drawing him towards Himself).
All holy-people should behave correctly towards one-another at all times - refer also to verse 10 below).
[Reference: Romans 15:1 and 7; I Corinthians 8:7-13, 10:25-33; Philippians 2:14; Colossians 2:16.]
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