Romans 14:2

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One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.

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  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; rather, both their mind and conscience are defiled.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.
  • Gen 1:29 : 29 Then God said, 'Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
  • Prov 15:17 : 17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
  • Dan 1:12 : 12 Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
  • Dan 1:16 : 16 So the steward took away their portion of the royal food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
  • Rom 14:22-23 : 22 Do you have faith? Keep it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever doubts and eats is condemned if they do so, because their actions are not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.
  • Gal 2:12 : 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to draw back and separate himself, fearing those of the circumcision group.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:1
    85%

    1Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but do not engage in disputes over opinions.

  • Rom 14:3-7
    5 verses
    83%

    3The one who eats must not look down on the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God has accepted them.

    4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own Master they stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

    5One person considers one day more important than another, while another considers every day alike. Each person should be fully convinced in their own mind.

    6Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

    7For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.

  • Rom 14:13-23
    11 verses
    78%

    13Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

    14I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

    15If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

    17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

    18For anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

    22Do you have faith? Keep it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

    23But whoever doubts and eats is condemned if they do so, because their actions are not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

    11So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    72%

    27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

    28But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.

    29I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    72%

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 15:1
    71%

    1We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

    4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    70%

    25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16Therefore, let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or regarding a festival, a new moon, or Sabbaths.

  • Heb 13:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.

    10We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • Heb 5:14
    68%

    14But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

    13Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
    68%

    21For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.

  • Mark 7:19
    67%

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)

  • Deut 14:20
    67%

    20You may eat any clean flying creature.

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    67%

    29Then God said, 'Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30And to all the beasts of the earth, all the birds in the sky, and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.' And it was so.

  • Rom 14:10
    67%

    10But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • Deut 14:6
    67%

    6You may eat any animal that has divided hooves completely split and chews the cud.

  • Deut 14:4
    67%

    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

  • 1 Cor 10:23
    66%

    23Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • Gen 9:3
    66%

    3Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    66%

    29For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

  • Lev 11:3
    66%

    3You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof, one completely split, and that chews the cud.

  • 1 Cor 2:15
    66%

    15The spiritual person examines all things, but he himself is not subject to being examined by anyone.

  • John 4:32
    66%

    32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."