Romans 14:4 · World English Bible
Romans 14:4 Meaning Who Are You Who Judge Another’s Servant
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
What does Romans 14:4 mean?
The servant is the body a person wears, and the master is God, your own imagination, which puts that servant through every trial to transform it. To judge another is to forget this, because you change no one by condemning him.
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The servant is the body a person wears, and the master is God, your own imagination, which puts that servant through every trial to transform it. To judge another is to forget this, because you change no one by condemning him. You change others only by changing the concept you hold of them, and the only beliefs about another worth keeping are ones you would accept as true of yourself.
The promise that he shall be held up means the outer world conforms once your inner speech and inner picture of it are set. Persuade yourself first, and what you are persuaded of stands. God is able to make him stand because God is the assuming power in you, and what it assumes about anyone becomes so. You lift a person by lifting your own idea of him. Held rightly within, he is held up without.
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Live Romans 14:4 today
- Think of one person you have quietly written off, and change your private verdict on them, in your own head, where no one can see it. Hold the version of them you would want held of you.
- The next time the group chat is pulling someone apart, do not add to it. Say the one decent thing you actually believe about them, or say nothing and keep your own picture of them steady.
- When a coworker drops the ball and you feel the judgment rising, stop before the email goes out. Decide they are capable, write to that person, and see what comes back.
Who have I been holding down with my opinion of them?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 27
The wise teacher does not throw people away. Seeing the good in them is what lets it come forward.
Judaism · Pirkei Avot
Judge every person on the generous side of the scale. The verdict you hand down shapes the person you then have to deal with.
Buddhism · Metta
Hold another person in genuine goodwill and that is what reaches them, long before any words do. Condemnation only hardens what it touches.
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