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 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• 1 Cor 8:7–13However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
• 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• Rom 15:7Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
• Rom 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
• 1 Cor 3:1–2Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
• Matt 10:40–42He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
• Isa 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
• Luke 17:2It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
• Isa 35:3–4Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
• Rom 4:19Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
• Matt 12:20He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
• Isa 42:3He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
• Matt 18:5–6Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
• Ezek 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
• 3 Jn 1:8–10We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
• Job 4:3Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
• 2 Jn 1:10If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
• Ezek 34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
• Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• Matt 14:31Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
• Phil 2:29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
• John 13:20Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
• Zech 11:16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

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