14:22a
Keep your belief about such matters:
Here the Greek is more literally “Keep your belief.” The word belief refers to faith or deeply held views about such things as what food to eat or whether one should follow the OT rules or not. In some languages a literal translation would have the wrong meaning. If that is true in your language, you may want to:
• Explain it in your translation, as the Berean Standard Bible does. For example:
Keep your faith/beliefs ⌊in those things that⌋ you have
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Your beliefs about these things (New Century Version)
• Translate the literal meaning and explain it in a footnote. Here is an example footnote:
Here the word “belief” refers to the things someone believes about such things as what food to eat or whether one should follow the OT rules or not.
between yourself and God: This command indicates that a believer should not share his beliefs about what to eat and so forth. It implies that believer should not cause problems by what he says or does with other believers who have different beliefs about those things. Here are other ways to translate this clause:
have as your own conviction before God (New American Standard Bible)
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we can hold in our heart that belief of ours in front of God
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it should only be you (pl) and God who are the ones who know it
14:22b
Blessed: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as Blessed describes a person who is in a good situation. In the Bible, the good situation results from God showing favor/kindness to the person. It includes the inner happiness a person feels when God forgives him and accepts him. See how you translated this word in 4:7.
the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves: The Greek is more literally “the one not judging himself in what he approves.” It indicates that this person does not cause himself to be condemned because he does what he considers to be good things. Here are other ways to translate this clause:
the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves (New International Version (2011))
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those who have no reason to condemn themselves because of what they approve (New Revised Standard Version)
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they can do what they think is right without feeling guilty (New Century Version)
condemn: Here this phrase refers to acting as a judge. In this context it suggests condemning someone as having done evil. See how you translated this phrase in 14:3 or 14:13 (Berean Standard Bible: “judge”).
approves: Here this word refers to thinking about something and deciding it is good or acceptable. Here it includes, for example, decisions about eating certain foods or not. Here are other ways to translate this word:
judge is right (Good News Translation)
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they have decided is right (New Living Translation (2004))
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he has decided is the right thing for him to do
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