Romans 14:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.

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  • Rom 14:23 : 23 But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:11 : 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? 10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
  • Col 2:16-17 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • 1 John 3:19-21 : 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

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  • Rom 14:6-8
    3 verses
    87%

    6He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

    7For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

    8As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 14:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

    2One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

    3Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

    4Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

  • Col 2:16
    75%

    16For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

  • Rom 14:12-16
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    75%

    12So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.

    13Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

    14I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.

    15And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

    16Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • Rom 14:18-22
    5 verses
    74%

    18And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

    19So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

    20Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    21It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

    22The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    71%

    27If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

    28But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

    29Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.

  • Rom 14:10
    70%

    10But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.

    4For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

    5For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

    6My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-9
    3 verses
    70%

    7Still, 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.

    8But 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.

    9But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

  • Gal 6:4-5
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    4But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

    5Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.

  • 1 Cor 10:24-25
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    69%

    24Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

    25Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;

  • 1 Cor 7:24
    69%

    24My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
    69%

    20Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

  • 1 Cor 2:15
    69%

    15But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

  • Gal 5:10
    68%

    10I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

  • Gal 4:10
    68%

    10You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

  • Deut 12:8
    68%

    8You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

  • Rom 15:1-2
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    68%

    1We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

    2Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
    67%

    7It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

  • Rom 12:3
    67%

    3But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

  • 1 Cor 10:31
    67%

    31So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:17
    67%

    17Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.

  • Exod 16:29
    67%

    29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

  • Eph 5:10
    67%

    10Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;

  • Rom 2:1
    67%

    1So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

  • Heb 13:9
    67%

    9Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

  • 2 Cor 8:12
    66%

    12For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.