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Romans 14

{{New Testament chapter short description}}

{{Bible chapter|letname=Romans 14|previouslink= Romans 13 |previousletter= chapter 13 |nextlink= Romans 15 |nextletter= chapter 15 |book= Epistle to the Romans |biblepart=New Testament | booknum= 6 |category= Pauline epistles | filename= Papyrus 27.png|size=200px | name=Papyrus 27, 3rd century |caption=Epistle to the Romans 8:12–22 in the bigger of two fragments forming Papyrus 27 (recto side), written in the 3rd century}}

Romans 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD,{{sfn|Hill|2007|p=1084}} with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22.{{cite book|last=Donaldson | first= Terence L. |chapter = 63. Introduction to the Pauline Corpus | title=The Oxford Bible Commentary | editor-first1=John| editor-last1=Barton | editor-first2=John| editor-last2= Muddiman | publisher = Oxford University Press |edition= first (paperback) | date = 2007 | pages = 1077 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ | isbn = 978-0199277186}}

Protestant Reformer Martin Luther summarised this chapter as Paul's teaching that "one should carefully guide those with weak conscience and spare them; one shouldn't use Christian freedom to harm, but rather to help, the weak",Luther, M., [http://www.ccel.org/l/luther/romans/pref_romans.html Preface to the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans], translated by Andrew Thornton, OSB, 1983 while Lutheran theologian Johann Albrecht Bengel says that Paul "refers all things to faith".[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/bengel/romans/14.htm Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament] on Romans 14, accessed 2 October 2016 Craig Hill suggests that Paul has drawn on his "recent Corinthian correspondence" in this part of the epistle.{{sfn|Hill|2007|p=1105}}

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 23 verses in most modern-day translations, but many historic Greek editions placed Romans 16:25–27 at the end of this chapter instead, making it consist of 26 verses in total.{{Citation|title=Romans 16|author=New English Translation|url=https://netbible.org/bible/Romans+16/|access-date=January 28, 2022|website=NET Bible}}

=Textual witnesses=

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

=Old Testament references=

  • Romans 14:11 refers to Isaiah 45:23{{cite web|url=https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/The-Epistle-to-the-Romanes_14_1611/|title=Biblical concordances of Romans 14 in the 1611 King James Bible}}

=New Testament references=

  • {{bibleverse|Romans|14:10}} references {{bibleverse|2 Corinthians|5:10|KJV}}
  • {{bibleverse|Romans|14:15}} references {{bibleverse|1 Corinthians|8:11|KJV}}
  • {{bibleverse|Romans|14:20}} references {{bibleverse|Titus|1:15|KJV}}
  • {{bibleverse|Romans|14:21}} references {{bibleverse|1 Corinthians|8:13|KJV}}

The weak in faith

The identity of the "weak" is not clear.{{sfn|Hill|2007|p=1105}} The word which Paul uses for "weakness" in faith ({{langx|grc|τον{{nbsp}}[...] {{strong|ἀσθενοῦντα}} τῇ πίστει|ton {{strong|asthenounta}} tē pistei|label=none}}) refers to both physical illness and moral weakness.[http://biblehub.com/greek/770.htm Strong's Concordance 770: astheneó] In 2 Timothy 4:20, a book traditionally ascribed to Paul, it is stated that Paul's missionary companion Trophimus was sick ({{langx|grc|ἀσθενοῦντα|asthenounta|label=none}}) when he left him at Miletus.

=Verse 4=

{{quote|Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.|Romans 14:4, New King James Version{{bibleverse|Romans|14:4|NKJV}} NKJV}}

Hill suggests that verse 4 is reminiscent of the teaching of Jesus Christ in a verse which he calls "that most-cited biblical quotation", Matthew 7:1: "Judge not, lest you be judged."{{sfn|Hill|2007|p=1105}}

Verse 23

{{quote|But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.|Romans 14:23, New King James Version{{bibleverse|Romans|14:23|NKJV}}}}

The statement about faith in verse 23 is similar to that found in Hebrews 11:6, "...without faith it is impossible to please God".{{bibleverse|Hebrews|11:6|NRSV}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2023}}

Verses 24–26

{{See also|List of New Testament verses not included in modern English translations#Romans 14 and 16}}

{{quote|{{sup|24}}Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, {{sup|25}}but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; {{sup|26}}to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.|Romans 14:24–26, World English Bible{{bibleverse|Romans|14:24–26|WEB}}}}

Verses 24–26 are not contained here in most modern-day English translations, but rather they are placed at the end of Romans 16 as verses 25–27. However, the majority of Greek manuscripts, most of which are in the Byzantine Text tradition, place these verses here at the end of Romans 14. A very small minority of other manuscripts either place them after Romans 15, place them in multiple places, or omit them altogether. Most scholars today believe that these verses belong at the end of chapter 16, but some defend the authenticity of their placement at this location.See H. Gamble, The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans; Zane C. Hodges & Arthur L. Farstad, The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text; and Maurice A. Robinson & William G. Pierpont, The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Byzantine/Majority Textform

See also

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book

|last= Coogan

|first = Michael David

|title = The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48

|editor-last1=Coogan

|editor-first1=Michael David

|editor-first2=Marc Zvi

|editor-last2= Brettler

|editor-first3=Carol Ann

|editor-last3= Newsom

|editor-first4= Pheme

|editor-last4= Perkins

|edition=Augmented 3rd

|publisher = Oxford University Press

|year =2007

|isbn = 9780195288810

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HmpMPgAACAAJ

}}

  • {{cite book|last=Hill | first= Craig C. |chapter = 64. Romans | title=The Oxford Bible Commentary | editor-first1=John| editor-last1=Barton | editor-first2=John| editor-last2= Muddiman | publisher = Oxford University Press |edition= first (paperback) | date = 2007 | pages = 1083–1108 | isbn = 978-0199277186 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ| access-date=February 6, 2019}}

External links

  • {{bibleverse|Romans|14|KJV}} King James Bible - Wikisource
  • [http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=1&b=6&c=14 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate]
  • [http://www.gospelhall.org/bible/bible.php?passage=Romans+14 Online Bible at GospelHall.org] (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
  • [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=52&chapter=14 Multiple bible versions at Bible Gateway] (NKJV, NIV, NRSV etc.)

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