Romans 14:1
Receive anyone who is weak in faith, without giving judgment about arguments.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
In Context
2One person has faith to eat anything, another who is weak eats only vegetables.
Cross References
Job 4:3See, you have instructed many; 1 you have strengthened weak hands. 1
Isaiah 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather in his arm the lambs, 1 and carry them close to his heart, 1 and will gently lead the ewes nursing their young. 1
Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened those who have diseases, nor do you heal the ones who are ill. You do not bind up the ones who are broken, and you do not restore the outcasts or seek the lost. Instead, you rule over them through strength and violence.
Zechariah 11:16for see, I am about to set in place a shepherd in the land. He will not care for the perishing sheep. He will not seek out the sheep gone missing, nor heal the crippled sheep. He will not feed the sheep that are healthy, but will eat the flesh of the fattened sheep and will tear off their hooves. 1
Matthew 12:20He will not break any bruised reed; 1 he will not quench any smoking flax, 1 until he leads justice to victory,
Matthew 18:5Whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name receives 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 →