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OET (OET-LV) Not on_account food, be_tearing_down the work of_ the _god.
All things indeed clean are, but evil to_the person which through a_stumbling block eating.
OET (OET-RV) don’t be tearing down God’s work just on account of food. Indeed, all foods are ‘clean’[fn] but it’s wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
14:20 In Hebrew, ‘kosher’.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
μὴ & κατάλυε τὸ ἔργον τοῦ Θεοῦ
not & /be/_tearing_down the work ¬the ˱of˲_God
Here, tear down refers to undoing the work God has done. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “Do not undo the work of God”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἕνεκεν βρώματος
on_account food
This phrase refers to a Christian eating food that another Christian thinks is unclean, as mentioned in 14:2–6, 13–17. See how you translated the similar phrase in 14:15.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πάντα μὲν καθαρά
all_‹things› indeed clean_‹are›
Here, things refers to food and clean refers to something that God has permitted. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “All foods are indeed permitted by God to be eaten”
Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns
κακὸν
evil
Here, it refers to the act of eating a food that someone believes God has not permitted. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “eating those things is evil”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ διὰ προσκόμματος ἐσθίοντι
˱to˲_the person ¬which through /a/_stumbling_‹block› eating
Here, eats with a stumbling block refers to tempting another believer to sin by eating food that the other believer thinks is sinful to eat. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “for the man to eat what causes another believer to stumble”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
προσκόμματος
/a/_stumbling_‹block›
See how you translated stumbling block in 11:9.
14:20 The work of God refers both to the spiritual life of other Christians (14:15) and to the Christian community itself (14:19). The strong, with their dogged insistence on doing whatever they want, create division and disrupt God’s intention to build a healthy and united community of believers.
OET (OET-LV) Not on_account food, be_tearing_down the work of_ the _god.
All things indeed clean are, but evil to_the person which through a_stumbling block eating.
OET (OET-RV) don’t be tearing down God’s work just on account of food. Indeed, all foods are ‘clean’[fn] but it’s wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
14:20 In Hebrew, ‘kosher’.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.