Romans 14:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τὸν δὲ ἀσθενοῦντα τῇ πίστει προσλαμβάνεσθε, μὴ εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν.

Transliteration

The asthenē in the pistis proslambanesthe, not for diakriseis of dialogismōn.

Grammar Details

• *asthenē*: accusative, masculine, singular participle - one being weak
• *pistis*: dative, feminine, singular - faith/belief
• *proslambanesthe*: present, middle/passive, imperative, 2nd plural - receive/accept/welcome
• *diakriseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - disputes/judgments/discernments
• *dialogismōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - thoughts/reasonings/doubts

Word Meanings

• *asthenē*: weak one/feeble one/powerless one
• *pistis*: faith/belief/trust/conviction
• *proslambanesthe*: welcome/receive/accept/take to yourself
• *diakriseis*: disputes/judgments/discernments/discriminations
• *dialogismōn*: thoughts/reasonings/opinions/doubts/disputes

Referenced Verses

• Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
• Rom 15:7 : 7 So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
• Luke 17:2 : 2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
• 1 Cor 8:7-9 : 7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled. 8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better. 9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble. 10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images? 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ. 13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
• John 13:20 : 20 Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.
• Rom 4:19 : 19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
• 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. 2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;
• Phil 2:29 : 29 So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:
• 2 John 1:10 : 10 If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:
• 3 John 1:8-9 : 8 So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith. 9 I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there. 10 So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.
• Job 4:3 : 3 Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
• Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. 4 Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
• Isa 40:11 : 11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
• Isa 42:3 : 3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
• Ezek 34:4 : 4 You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
• Zech 11:16 : 16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
• Matt 10:40-42 : 40 He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me. 41 He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward. 42 And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.
• Matt 12:20 : 20 The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
• Matt 14:31 : 31 And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?
• Matt 18:5-6 : 5 And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: 6 But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.
• Matt 18:10 : 10 Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.