Romans 14:1

Paul tells the church to welcome believers who are weak in faith without dragging them into quarrels over disputable matters. Christian fellowship rests on shared faith in Christ, not on agreement over every secondary opinion.

Cross-references · 24

• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• 1 Cor 8:7–13But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
• 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
• Rom 15:7Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.
• Rom 14:21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
• 1 Cor 3:1–2Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
• Matt 10:40–42He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.
• Isa 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
• Luke 17:2It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
• Isa 35:3–4Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Rom 4:19Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
• Matt 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
• Isa 42:3A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
• Matt 18:5–6And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
• Ezek 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
• 3 Jn 1:8–10Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
• Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
• 2 Jn 1:10If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.
• Ezek 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
• Matt 18:10See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.
• Matt 14:31Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and took hold of Peter. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”
• Phil 2:29Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
• John 13:20Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”
• Zech 11:16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

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