Romans 14:1

World English Bible (2000)

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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  • Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Rom 15:7 : 7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • Luke 17:2 : 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 8:7-9 : 7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
  • John 13:20 : 20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
  • Rom 4:19 : 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
  • Phil 2:29 : 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
  • 2 John 1:10 : 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,
  • 3 John 1:8-9 : 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
  • Job 4:3 : 3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
  • Isa 42:3 : 3 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
  • Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
  • Zech 11:16 : 16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
  • Matt 10:40-42 : 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
  • Matt 12:20 : 20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
  • Matt 14:31 : 31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
  • Matt 18:5-6 : 5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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  • Rom 14:2-6
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    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

    4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

    5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

    6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

  • Rom 14:13-23
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    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

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

    15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

    17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

    19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

    22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

    23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
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    7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

    11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

    12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 15:7
    73%

    7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

  • Heb 13:9
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    9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
    70%

    27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

  • 1 Thess 5:14
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    14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

  • Phil 2:29
    69%

    29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

  • Heb 5:14
    67%

    14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  • Titus 1:14
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    14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Gal 5:10
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    10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • Luke 10:8
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    8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

  • Phil 2:14
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    14 Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
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    3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

  • Col 2:16
    67%

    16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

  • Rom 14:10
    66%

    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    66%

    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • Phlm 1:17
    66%

    17 If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

  • 3 John 1:8
    66%

    8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 14:17
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    17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

  • Rom 16:17
    66%

    17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

  • Gal 6:1
    66%

    1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

  • Gal 4:14
    66%

    14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

  • 2 Tim 2:24
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    24 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

  • Acts 15:29
    65%

    29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."