Romans 14:1
But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
In Context
2For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants.
Cross References
Job 4:3Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
Isaiah 40:11He will pasture his flock like a shepherd. He will gather together the lambs with his arm, and he will lift them up to his bosom, and he himself will carry the very young.
Ezekiel 34:4What was weak, you have not strengthened, and what was sick, you have not healed. What was broken, you have not bound, and what was cast aside, you have not led back again, and what was lost, you have not sought. Instead, you ruled over them with severity and with power.
Zechariah 11:16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.
Matthew 12:20He shall not crush the bruised reed, and he shall not extinguish the smoking wick, until he sends forth judgment unto victory.
Matthew 18:5And whoever shall accept one such little child in my name, accepts me.
Matthew Henry on Romans 14:1
The apostle having, in the former chapter, directed our conduct one towards another in civil things, and prescribed the sacred laws of justice, peaceableness, and order, to be observed by us as members of the commonwealth, comes in this and part of the following chapter in like manner to direct our demeanour one towards another in sacred things, which pertain more immediately to conscience and religion, and which we observe as members of the church. Particularly, he gives rules how to manage our different… Read the whole commentary →