Romans 14:2
For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
In Context
1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.
Cross References
Genesis 1:29Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Daniel 1:16So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
Romans 14:22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
Galatians 2:12For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Matthew Henry on Romans 14:2-23
Exhortations to Candour; The Dominion of Christ. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5… Read the whole commentary →