Romans 14:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Receive into fellowship him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions.

³ For if thou hast instructed many; and strengthened hands which were weak; and raised up with words them who were fainting;

³ Be strong ye hands which are feeble, and ye knees which are without strength. ⁴ Take comfort ye who are faint hearted; take courage, be not terrified; behold our God retributeth judgment; he will indeed make retribution; he himself will come and save us.

¹¹ Like a shepherd he will tend his flock; and with his arm he will gather the lambs, and comfort the ewes that are with young.

³ A bruised reed he will not break, nor extinguish a dimly burning taper; but will publish judgment to establish truth.

⁴ You have not strengthened the weak, nor cured the diseased. That which was bruised you have not bound up, nor brought back that which was going astray; nor have you searched for that which was lost: but you have wearied out the strong with toil,

¹⁶ I will seek the lost, and bring back the stray; and bind up the bruised and strengthen the weak: and I will watch the strong, and feed them with judgment.

¹⁶ for behold I am about to raise up a shepherd against this land, who will not visit what is fainting, nor seek what is scattered; nor heal what is bruised; nor lead aright what is sound; but will devour the flesh of the choice, and tear their joints asunder.

⁴⁰ He who receiveth you, receiveth me; and he who receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me. ⁴¹ He who receiveth a prophet on the account of his being a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receiveth a righteous man on the account of his being a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break, nor extinguish a dimly burning taper, until he render his judgment victorious.

³¹ And Jesus immediately stretched forth his hand and took hold of him, saying, Distrustful man, why didst thou doubt?

⁵ And whoever shall receive one such child in my name, receiveth me. ⁶ But whoever shall occasion the stumbling of one of such little ones who believe in me, better were it for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were whelmed in the depth of the sea.

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, Their angels in heaven do continually behold the face of my father who is in heaven.

² It would be better for him to have a millstone hanged about his neck and to be thrown into the sea, than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

²⁰ Verily, verily I say to you, He who receiveth whomsoever I shall send, receiveth me; and he who receiveth me receiveth him who sent me.

¹⁹ and far from being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now become dead, he being then in his hundredth year; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother falleth, or stumbleth, or is made weak.

¹ We then who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

⁷ Therefore receive one another into fellowship, even as the Christ received us into his family, for the glory of God.

¹ Now with regard to myself, I could not, brethren, speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal men, as babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk, and not with strong food, because you were not arrived at strength; nor are you indeed yet strong, even now.

⁷ But all have not this knowledge; and some, with the consciousness of regard for the idol, even to this time eat meat as sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. ⁸ Now food doth not recommend us to God. For if we eat we are not the better; nor are we the worse if we do not eat. ⁹ But take heed that this liberty of yours do not prove a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if one seeth thee who hast knowledge seated at table in an idol temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the idol sacrifice? ¹¹ And shall the weak brother, for whom Christ died, be destroyed for thy knowledge? ¹² When you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore if meat cause my brother to stumble, I will never eat flesh that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; to all those I have become all this that I may save all.

²⁹ Receive him then in the Lord with all joy and hold such in high esteem

¹⁰ If any one cometh to you, and doth not bring this doctrine, receive him not into your family; nor wish him success;

⁸ We therefore ought to entertain such, that we may be fellow helpers in the truth. ⁹ I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who affecteth a preeminence among them, doth not regard us. ¹⁰ For this cause, when I come I will take notice of his works which he doth, talking lightly of us with malicious words, and not content with this, he doth not entertain the brethren himself, and them who would, he hindereth, and casteth them out of the congregation.