{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_rom014_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_rom014_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_rom014_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/rom014.htm","summary":"This is Romans 14 presented in three parallel textual traditions: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version (KJV), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). The passage is a piece of Pauline paraenesis \u2014 practical ethical instruction within the epistolary tradition of early Christianity \u2014 addressed to a community divided over matters of dietary practice and the observance of holy days. Its central argument is that believers should not judge or despise one another over such \"weak faith\" scruples, because each person lives and dies accountable to God alone, not to fellow believers. Paul grounds this in the claim that Christ died and rose to be Lord of both the dead and the living, making mutual judgment an usurpation of divine authority, and he clinches the point with a quotation from Isaiah: every knee will bow and every tongue confess to God. A notably distinctive move is Paul's asymmetry of obligation: while declaring that nothing is intrinsically unclean, he nonetheless places the burden of restraint on the \"strong\" \u2014 those who eat freely \u2014 arguing that causing a brother to stumble through one's liberty is a failure of love and risks destroying \"the work of God\" over a mere matter of food. The passage closes with the memorable formulation that whatever is not done from faith is sin.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Romans: Romans 14","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1366}