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# Romans 14

Romans 14 is chapter 14 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The strong must bear with the weak. Cautions against judging and giving scandal.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 14 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas.
2. For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.
3. He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him.
4. Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.
5. For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind.
6. He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
7. For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.
8. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9. For Christ died and rose again for this purpose: that he might be the ruler of both the dead and the living.
10. So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11. For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
12. And so, each one of us shall offer an explanation of himself to God.
13. Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray.
14. I know, with confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in and of itself. But to him who considers anything to be unclean, it is unclean to him.
15. For if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are not now walking according to love. Do not allow your food to destroy him for whom Christ died.
16. Therefore, what is good for us should not be a cause of blasphemy.
17. For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.
18. For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men.
19. And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another.
20. Do not be willing to destroy the work of God because of food. Certainly, all things are clean. But there is harm for a man who offends by eating.
21. It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
22. Do you have faith? It belongs to you, so hold it before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in that by which he is tested.
23. But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

## Romans 14 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Infirmum autem in fide assumite, non in disceptationibus cogitationum.
2. Alius enim credit se manducare omnia: qui autem infirmus est, olus manducet.
3. Is qui manducat, non manducantem non spernat: et qui non manducat, manducantem non judicet: Deus enim illum assumpsit.
4. Tu quis es, qui judicas alienum servum? domino suo stat, aut cadit: stabit autem: potens est enim Deus statuere illum.
5. Nam alius judicat diem inter diem: alius autem judicat omnem diem: unusquisque in suo sensu abundet.
6. Qui sapit diem, Domino sapit, et qui manducat, Domino manducat: gratias enim agit Deo. Et qui non manducat, Domino non manducat, et gratias agit Deo.
7. Nemo enim nostrum sibi vivit, et nemo sibi moritur.
8. Sive enim vivemus, Domino vivimus: sive morimur, Domino morimur. Sive ergo vivimus, sive morimur, Domini sumus.
9. In hoc enim Christus mortuus est, et resurrexit: ut et mortuorum et vivorum dominetur.
10. Tu autem quid judicas fratrem tuum? aut tu quare spernis fratrem tuum? omnes enim stabimus ante tribunal Christi.
11. Scriptum est enim: Vivo ego, dicit Dominus, quoniam mihi flectetur omne genu: et omnis lingua confitebitur Deo.
12. Itaque unusquisque nostrum pro se rationem reddet Deo.
13. Non ergo amplius invicem judicemus: sed hoc judicate magis, ne ponatis offendiculum fratri, vel scandalum.
14. Scio, et confido in Domino Jesu, quia nihil commune per ipsum, nisi ei qui existimat quid commune esset, illi commune est.
15. Si enim propter cibum frater tuus contristatur, jam non secundum caritatem ambulas. Noli cibo tuo illum perdere, pro quo Christus mortuus est.
16. Non ergo blasphemetur bonum nostrum.
17. Non est enim regnum Dei esca et potus: sed justitia, et pax, et gaudium in Spiritu Sancto:
18. qui enim in hoc servit Christo, placet Deo, et probatus est hominibus.
19. Itaque quæ pacis sunt, sectemur: et quæ ædificationis sunt, in invicem custodiamus.
20. Noli propter escam destruere opus Dei, omnia quidem sunt munda: sed malum est homini, qui per offendiculum manducat.
21. Bonum est non manducare carnem, et non bibere vinum, neque in quo frater tuus offenditur, aut scandalizatur, aut infirmatur.
22. Tu fidem habes? penes temetipsum habe coram Deo. Beatus qui non judicat semetipsum in eo quod probat.
23. Qui autem discernit, si manducaverit, damnatus est: quia non ex fide. Omne autem, quod non est ex fide, peccatum est.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1971: The New Law or the Law of the Gospel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 953: The Communion of Saints ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 668: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2819: "Thy Kingdom Come" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1789: To Choose in Accord With Conscience ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: “Eat all things” … Viz., without observing the distinction of clean and unclean meats, prescribed by the law of Moses: which was now no longer obligatory. Some weak Christians, converted from among the Jews, as we here gather from the apostle, made a scruple of eating such meats as were deemed unclean by the law; such as swine's flesh, etc., which the stronger sort of Christians did eat without scruple. Now the apostle, to reconcile them together, exhorts the former not to judge or condemn the latter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to take care not to despise or scandalize their weaker brethren, either by bringing them to eat what in their conscience they think they should not, or by giving them such offence, as to endanger the driving them thereby from the Christian religion.
- Verse 5: Still observing the sabbaths and festivals of the law.
- Verse 23: That is, distinguisheth between meats, and eateth against his conscience, what he deems unclean.
- Verse 23: “Of faith” … By faith is here understood judgment and conscience: to act against which is always a sin.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Nov 4, 2027 (computed): St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop — First Reading, Romans 14:7-12

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).