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Romans 14:1

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

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A bruised reed he will not break, And a smoldering wick he will not quench, Till he has brought the judgment to a victorious issue,

Instantly Jesus stretched out his hand, and caught hold of him. "O man of little faith!" he said, "Why did you falter?"

Beware of despising one of these lowly ones, for in Heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.

Because it does not pass into his heart, but into his stomach, and is afterwards got rid of?--in saying this Jesus pronounced all food 'clean.'

It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.

In truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me."

The natives showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.

For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?

One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

The man who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains from it; nor must the man who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received him.

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

Therefore always receive one another as friends, just as the Christ himself received us, to the glory of God.

Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some.

Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such men in great honour.

We entreat you also, Brothers--warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with every one.

But 'solid food' is for Christians of mature faith--those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.

If any one comes to you and does not bring this Teaching, do not receive him into your house or welcome him;




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