Romans 14:2 “For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak…”

Romans 14:2

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

World English Bible

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

American Standard Version

One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

Geneva Bible 1599

One beleeueth that he may eate of all things: and another, which is weake, eateth herbes.

Darby Translation

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

Young's Literal Translation

one doth believe that he may eat all things — and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

Bible in Basic English

One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

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Cross references

“that”

1 Timothy 4:4 Romans 14:14 Galatians 2:12 1 Corinthians 10:25 Titus 1:15 Hebrews 13:9

1 Timothy 4:4 · BSB

For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

Romans 14:14 · BSB

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

Galatians 2:12 · BSB

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, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

1 Corinthians 10:25 · BSB

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

Titus 1:15 · BSB

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Hebrews 13:9 · BSB

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

“another”

Romans 14:22 Romans 14:23

Romans 14:22 · BSB

Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

Romans 14:23 · BSB

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

“eateth”

Proverbs 15:17 Genesis 9:3 Daniel 1:12 Genesis 1:29 Daniel 1:16

Proverbs 15:17 · BSB

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Genesis 9:3 · BSB

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Daniel 1:12 · BSB

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Genesis 1:29 · BSB

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Daniel 1:16 · BSB

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

3The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

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