The New Testament: A Translation

by David Bentley Hart

2One man believes in eating all things, while one who is weak eats vegetables. 3Let not the one who eats hold the one who does not eat in disdain, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who does eat, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge another’s domestic? He stands or falls by his own lord; and he shall stand because that lord is able to make him stand. 5One man esteems one day above another day, but another esteems every day; let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6Whoever is mindful of the day minds it for the Lord’s sake; [and whoever is not mindful of the day is unmindful of it for the Lord’s sake;] and he who eats eats for the Lord’s sake, for he gives thanks to God, and he who does not eat does not eat for the Lord’s sake and he too gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself; 8for if we live we live for the Lord; or if we die we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9For to this end the Anointed died and [rose and] lived, that he might be Lord of both dead and living.