Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
- BSB Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.
- NKJV Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
- NASB Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, for the glory of God.
- NLT Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.
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Quick answer
Welcome one another, just as Christ welcomed you, to the glory of God. Christ's gracious reception of us is both the ground and the measure of how we receive each other.
Overview
This verse caps the whole section (14:1-15:13), returning to the opening command to 'accept.' Now the pattern is explicit: as Christ received us, sinners undeserving and diverse, so we are to receive one another across the weak/strong divide. Such mutual acceptance redounds to God's glory. The gospel of grace is not only the message but the model of church life.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 10:40He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
- John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- Rom 14:1–3Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
- Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Mark 9:37“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
- Luke 9:48and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
- Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 2 Th 1:10–12when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
- Luke 15:2The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
- Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- Matt 11:28–30“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
- John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
- Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Rom 15:9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
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