Romans 14:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Cross References

Job 4:3

Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands.

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, leading the ewes with care.

Isaiah 42:3

A bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench. He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment. Separation of the Sheep.

Ezekiel 34:4

You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sick nor bind up the injured. You did not bring back the stray or seek the lost but ruled them harshly and brutally.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that disappear, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed the exhausted; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!

Matthew 12:20

A bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory.

Matthew 14:31

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 18:10

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. [

Mark 7:19

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Luke 17:2

It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

John 13:20

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” Announcement of Judas’s Betrayal.

Acts 28:2

The natives showed us extraordinary hospitality; they lit a fire and welcomed all of us because it had begun to rain and was cold.

Romans 11:15

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Romans 14:2

One person believes that one may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:21

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:3

The one who eats must not despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats; for God has welcomed him.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves;

Romans 15:7

Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Romans 4:19

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as [already] dead (for he was almost a hundred years old) and the dead womb of Sarah.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all, to save at least some.

Philippians 2:29

Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy and hold such people in esteem,

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.

2 John 1:10

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him in your house or even greet him;