New American Standard Bible 1995
Romans 14:1
1Now 1accept the one who is 2weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
Romans 14:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
- New International Version (NIV)Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
- English Standard Version (ESV)As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
Context of Romans 14:1
Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. 2One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. 3The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
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Τὸν δὲ ἀσθενοῦντα τῇ πίστει προσλαμβάνεσθε μὴ εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Romans 14:1
- Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
- Romans 4:19Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
- Romans 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.
- Job 4:3Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
- Isaiah 35:3Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
- Isaiah 40:11Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
- Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
- Ezekiel 34:4Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.
- Zechariah 11:16For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.
- Matthew 12:20A battered reed He will not break off, And a smoldering wick He will not put out, Until He leads justice to victory.
- Matthew 14:31Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
- Matthew 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
- Luke 17:2It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 8:7However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.
Commentaries on Romans 14:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Him that is weak in the faith - By this the apostle most evidently means the converted Jew, who must indeed be weak in the faith, if he considered this distinction of meats and days essential to his salvation. See on Romans 14:21; (note). Receive ye - Associate with him; receive him into your religious fellowship; but when there, let all religious altercations be avoided. Not to doubtful disputations - . These words have been variously translated and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Him that is weak - The design here is to induce Christians to receive to their fellowship those who had scruples about the propriety of certain things, or that might have special prejudices and feelings as the result of education or former habits of belief. The apostle, therefore, begins by admitting that such an one may be “weak,” that is, not fully established, or not with so clear and enlarged views about Christian liberty others might have. In the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The Jewish converts cautioned against judging, and Gentile believers against despising one the other. (1-13) And the Gentiles exhorted to take heed of giving offence in their use of indifferent things. (14-23) Verses 1-6 Differences of opinion prevailed even among the immediate followers of Christ and their disciples. Nor did St. Paul attempt to end them. Compelled assent to any doctrine, or conformity to outward observances without being convinced, would…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1whose faith is weak: This means having a sensitive conscience about doing certain things that Christian freedom would allow. In Rome, most believers who were weak in faith were Jewish Christians. Their consciences did not allow them freedom from some practices required by the Jewish law.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-23The subject here, and on to Ro 15:13, is the consideration due from stronger Christians to their weaker brethren; which is but the great law of love (treated of in the thirteenth chapter) in one particular form. 1. Him that is weak in the faith--rather, "in faith"; that is, not "him that is weak in the truth believed" [Calvin, Beza, Alford, &c.], but (as most interpreters agree), "him whose faith wants that firmness and breadth which would raise him above…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Romans 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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