Romans 14:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 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.
  • Rom 14:2 : 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
  • Rom 14:20 : 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.
  • Acts 10:14-15 : 14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15 A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 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 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God 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; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
  • Acts 11:8-9 : 8 But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.' 9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'
  • Rom 14:23 : 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.{TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.}

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  • Rom 14:18-23
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    79%

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

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

    20Don'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.

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

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

    23But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.{TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.}

  • Rom 14:15-16
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    77%

    15Yet 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.

    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Rom 14:13
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    13Therefore 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.

  • Titus 1:15
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    15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  • Acts 10:14-15
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    14But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

    15A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

  • Rom 14:1-6
    6 verses
    73%

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

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

    3Don'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 received him.

    4Who 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.

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

    6He 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.

  • Mark 7:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

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

  • Acts 11:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

    9But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7However, 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.

    8But 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.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3But 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.

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

  • Mark 7:15
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    15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

  • Matt 15:20
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    20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

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

  • Acts 21:25
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    25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

  • Rom 15:14
    69%

    14I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

  • Acts 10:28
    69%

    28He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    69%

    27But 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.

    28But 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."

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

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • 1 Cor 8:10
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    10For 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?

  • Luke 11:41
    68%

    41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

  • Lev 7:19
    68%

    19"'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
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    67%

    3forbidding marriage 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 rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

  • Matt 15:11
    67%

    11That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

  • Deut 14:10
    67%

    10and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.

  • Ezek 4:14
    67%

    14Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

  • Acts 15:9
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    9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

  • Deut 14:8
    67%

    8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

  • 1 Cor 7:19
    67%

    19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.