Romans 14:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let not the one who eats despise the one who does not eat, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who eats; for God has accepted him.

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  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
  • Rom 14:13 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
  • Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. 2 For with the same judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you again.
  • Matt 9:14 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast?
  • Matt 11:18-19 : 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon. 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality:
  • Acts 10:44 : 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as He did to us; 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-13 : 11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.
  • 1 Cor 10:29-30 : 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience? 30 If I partake with thanks, why am I denounced for what I give thanks for?
  • Col 2:16-17 : 16 Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the substance is of Christ.
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

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  • Rom 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates.

    2For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.

  • Rom 14:4-7
    4 verses
    82%

    4Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.

    5One person values one day over another; another values every day alike. Let each person be fully convinced in their own mind.

    6He who regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he who does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

    7For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

  • Rom 14:13-23
    11 verses
    78%

    13Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

    14I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

    15But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

    17For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

    18For anyone who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

    19Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

    21It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

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

    23But whoever doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    76%

    7However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    76%

    27If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

    28But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?

  • Col 2:16
    75%

    16Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days;

  • Rom 14:10
    75%

    10But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 11:34
    72%

    34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And I will set the rest in order when I come.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    72%

    29For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the Lord’s body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

  • 1 Cor 5:12
    72%

    12For what do I have to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

  • Rom 15:7
    72%

    7Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    21For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

    22What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

    4For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

    4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving;

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    71%

    13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

  • 1 Cor 2:15
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    15But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Whatever is sold in the market, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

  • Matt 7:1
    70%

    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

  • 1 Cor 11:31-32
    2 verses
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    31For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

    32But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Rom 2:3
    69%

    3And do you think this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

  • 1 Thess 4:8
    69%

    8Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us His Holy Spirit.

  • Luke 10:8
    69%

    8And into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

  • 1 Cor 10:32
    69%

    32Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • John 7:24
    68%

    24Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

  • Mark 7:19
    68%

    19Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?