Romans 14:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
  • Gen 1:29 : 29 Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has 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 where there is hatred.
  • Dan 1:12 : 12 “Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.
  • Dan 1:16 : 16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.
  • Rom 14:22-23 : 22 The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves. 23 But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
  • Gal 2:12 : 12 Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 14:1
    85%

    1Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

  • Rom 14:3-7
    5 verses
    83%

    3The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

    4Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

    5One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

    6The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

    7For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

  • Rom 14:13-23
    11 verses
    78%

    13Exhortation for the Strong not to Destroy the Weak Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

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

    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

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

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

    19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

    22The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

    23But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-11
    5 verses
    74%

    7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

    10For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

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

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

    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

    28But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–

    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    72%

    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

  • Rom 15:1
    71%

    1Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

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

    4For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    70%

    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

  • Col 2:16
    69%

    16Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–

  • Heb 13:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

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

  • Heb 5:14
    68%

    14But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

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

    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
    68%

    21For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

  • Mark 7:19
    67%

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

  • Deut 14:20
    67%

    20You may eat any clean winged creature.

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    67%

    29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

  • Rom 14:10
    67%

    10But you who eat vegetables only– why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything– why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

  • Deut 14:6
    67%

    6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

  • Deut 14:4
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:23
    66%

    23Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

  • Gen 9:3
    66%

    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    66%

    29For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

  • Lev 11:3
    66%

    3You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.

  • 1 Cor 2:15
    66%

    15The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

  • John 4:32
    66%

    32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”