Kehillah in Rome 14:14-23

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁴ I have da’as and am convinced in Adoneinu Yehoshua that nothing is tamei beetzem (intrinsically), except that to the one who reckons something profane, to that person it is profane.

¹⁵ For if your Ach B’Moshiach is deeply upset on account of [your] okhel (food), you are no longer conducting yourself in a halakhah of ahavah. Do not by your okhel destroy that one for whom Moshiach died.

¹⁶ Therefore, do not let HaTov of you be brought into contempt.

¹⁷ For the Malchut Hashem is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of tzedek (righteousness, DANIEL 9:24), shalom (peace) and simcha b’Ruach Hakodesh.

¹⁸ For he who serves Moshiach in this is pleasing to Hashem and approved by people in general.

¹⁹ So then we pursue what makes for shalom and for the building up of one another.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of okhel bring churban to the work of Hashem.

²¹ It is a fine thing not to eat meat nor drink wine nor anything by which your Ach b’Moshiach stumbles.

²² The emunah that you have, keep beshita (as a matter of conviction or principle) to yourself before G-d. Ashrey is the man who does not condemn himself by the things he approves.

²³ But in the man who doubts, there is found in him a dvar ashmah (a thing of guilt, condemnation) if he eats, because it is not of emunah. And whatever is not of emunah is averah (sin).