Romans 14:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking.

³ »Look, you have instructed many people. When hands were weak, you made them strong.

³ Strengthen the tired hands and the knees that tremble with weakness. ⁴ Tell the discouraged ones with anxious heart: »Be strong and do not be afraid! God is coming to your rescue! He is coming to punish your enemies.«

¹¹ He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.

³ He will not break off a bent reed nor extinguish a flickering lamp. He will bring lasting justice to all.

⁴ »‘»You have not strengthened those that were weak, healed those who were sick, or bandaged those who were injured. You have not brought back those who strayed away or looked for those who were lost. You have ruled them harshly and violently.

¹⁶ »I will seek the lost. I will bring back the scattered. I will bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. The fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.«

¹⁶ »Warning! I will allow a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are perishing, and will not seek those that are scattered. This shepherd will not heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is hungry. He will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

⁴⁰ »He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. ⁴¹ »Anyone who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Anyone who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² »And whoever gives a drink of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will not lose his reward.«

²⁰ »He will break a bruised reed. He will quench smoking flax. This he will do until he sends forth judgment to victory.

³¹ Suddenly, Jesus put out his hand and took hold of him, and said: »You of little faith, why were you in doubt?«

⁵ »Everyone who accepts this little child in my name accepts me. ⁶ »He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

¹⁰ »Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

² »It would be better for him to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

²⁰ »Truly I say to you, he who receives whom ever I send receives me. And he who receives me receives him who sent me.

¹⁹ Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

²¹ It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

¹ We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

⁷ Receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

¹ Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ. ² I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now!

⁷ Not all people know this. Some eat food offered to idols and their conscience being weak is defiled. ⁸ But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better. ⁹ Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol’s temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened (encouraged) to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And because of your knowledge the weak brother will perish. Christ died for him! ¹² When you sin against your brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.

²² To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy. Hold such in honor

¹⁰ Do not receive anyone into your house who comes to you and does not bring this teaching. Give him no greeting!

⁸ We ought to receive and welcome such ones, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth. ⁹ I wrote something to the congregation. But Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us. ¹⁰ If I come, I will remind you of what he does. He unjustly accuses us with wicked words and is never satisfied. He does not allow the brothers to greet one another and he throws them out of the congregation.