Romans 14:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Luke 18:9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
  • Rom 14:10 : 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.
  • Rom 14:13 : 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.
  • Matt 7:1-2 : 1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
  • Matt 9:14 : 14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't 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 gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."
  • 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.
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;
  • Acts 10:44 : 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 14:15 : 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.
  • 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 8:11-13 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 10:29-30 : 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?
  • Col 2:16-17 : 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, 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."

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  • Rom 14:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

  • Rom 14:4-7
    4 verses
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    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.

    7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

  • Rom 14:13-23
    11 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    76%

    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?

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    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.

    28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

    29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

  • Col 2:16
    75%

    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
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 11:34
    72%

    34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
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    29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

  • 1 Cor 5:12
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    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

  • Rom 15:7
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    7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    72%

    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4 For 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
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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.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
    71%

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

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

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    70%

    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

  • Matt 7:1
    70%

    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • 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 11:31-32
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    70%

    31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

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

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Rom 2:3
    69%

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

  • 1 Thess 4:8
    69%

    8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

  • Luke 10:8
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 10:32
    69%

    32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • John 7:24
    68%

    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Mark 7:19
    68%

    19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"