Romans 14:1
Good News Translation
Welcome those who are weak in faith, but do not argue with them about their personal opinions.

New Revised Standard Version
Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.

Contemporary English Version
Welcome all the Lord's followers, even those whose faith is weak. Don't criticize them for having beliefs that are different from yours.

New American Bible
Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

weak.

Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

Romans 4:19 And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

Romans 15:1,7 Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. . . .

Job 4:3 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Isaiah 42:3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Ezekiel 34:4,16 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand. . . .

Zechariah 11:16 For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

Matthew 12:20 The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of him, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?

Matthew 18:6,10 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. . . .

Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:7-13 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

receive.

Romans 15:7 Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

Matthew 10:40-42 He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. . . .

Matthew 18:5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

John 13:20 Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

Philippians 2:29 Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with honour such as he is.

2 John 1:10 If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him: God speed you.

3 John 1:8-10 We therefore ought to receive such: that we may be fellow helpers of the truth. . . .

doubtful disputations.

Romans 14:2-5 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs. . . .

Context
The Law of Liberty
1Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts. 2For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.…
Cross References
Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Acts 28:2
For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain and of the cold.

Romans 11:15
For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Romans 14:2
For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

Romans 14:3
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

Romans 15:1
Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:7
Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

Hebrews 5:14
But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

Romans 13:14
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