Romans 14:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.

Cross References

Job 4:3

See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

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

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

Matthew 12:20

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

Matthew 14:31

Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 18:10

“Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.

Mark 7:19

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

Luke 17:2

It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to sin.

John 13:20

Very truly, I tell you, whoever receives one whom I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.”

Acts 28:2

The local people showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.

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

Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.

Romans 14:21

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

Romans 14:3

Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat, for God has welcomed them.

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, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Romans 4:19

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

Philippians 2:29

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

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

2 John 1:10

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive and welcome this person into your house,