Romans 14:1

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 receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. 2One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables. 3The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

Romans 14:1 word by word

Τὸν δὲ ἀσθενοῦντα τῇ πίστει προσλαμβάνεσθε μὴ εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• ·δέde · thenG1161
• Him that is weakἀσθενέωastheneō · be weak: weakG770
• in the faithπίστιςpistis · faithG4102
• receive yeπροσλαμβάνωproslambanō · to takeG4355
• notμήmē · notG3361
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• doubtfulδιαλογισμόςdialogismos · reasoningG1261
• disputationsδιάκρισιςdiakrisis · discernmentG1253

Cross-references for Romans 14:1

• Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
• Romans 4:19Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
• Romans 15:1But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
• Job 4:3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
• Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
• Isaiah 40:11Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
• Isaiah 42:3A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.
• Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.
• Zechariah 11:16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.
• Matthew 12:20He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.
• Matthew 14:31Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
• Matthew 18:6“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.
• Luke 17:2It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
• 1 Corinthians 3:1So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
• 1 Corinthians 8:7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
• 1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may 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

Topics related to Romans 14:1

• Charitableness
• Church
• Commandments
• Conscience
• Evil
• Fellowship
• Self-Denial
• Strife
• Uncharitableness

In the dictionaries

• Esteem
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• Discernings of Spirits
• Disputation
• Holiness

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