Romans 14:1

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Romans 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

2 For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

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

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Romans 14:21

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

Romans 4:19

Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:7

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.

Job 4:3

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”

Isaiah 40:11

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Isaiah 42:3

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’

Zechariah 11:16

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

Matthew 12:20

A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.

Matthew 14:31

Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and took hold of Peter. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”

Matthew 18:6

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:10

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

Luke 17:2

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:2

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 8:7

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:8

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

1 Corinthians 8:9

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11

So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:12

By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:22

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

Matthew 10:40

He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

Matthew 10:41

Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Matthew 10:42

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

Matthew 18:5

And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.

John 13:20

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

Philippians 2:29

Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,

2 John 1:10

If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

3 John 1:8

Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

3 John 1:9

I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.

3 John 1:10

So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church.