Romans 14:2

New International Version

One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

Cross References

Genesis 1:29

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Proverbs 15:17

Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Daniel 1:12

“Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Daniel 1:16

So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

Romans 14:1

Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.

Romans 14:14

I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

Romans 14:20

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

1 Corinthians 8:9

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To 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.

Galatians 2:12

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so.

Hebrews 9:10

They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.