Romans 14:1

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Summary

Romans 14:1

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Weak

Receive

3 John 1:8

Doubtful disputations

Romans 14:2

General references

Leviticus 11:22

Bible References

Weak

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

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;

Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Receive

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

"Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.

"Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me."

So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,

Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Doubtful disputations

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

General references

Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.