Romans 14:3 Cross References - WPNT

³ One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

¹ “Do not judge, so that you be not judged. ² Because with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John come to Him saying, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast about many things, but your disciples do not fast?”

¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a demon’; ¹⁹ the Son of the Man came eating and drinking and they say, ‘Just look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Indeed, wisdom is vindicated by her children.”

¹⁰ “See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father, who is in the heavens.

⁹ Then He told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:

³⁴ So opening his mouth Peter said: “Really, I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality,

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were hearing the message.

⁸ And the heart-knowing God acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us; ⁹ and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way.

¹⁵ but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died.

²¹ It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.

¹¹ And so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, will be wasted because of your knowledge. ¹² But when you thus sin against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ So then, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to fall.

²⁹ ‘Conscience’ I say, not your own but that of the other. Now just why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience? ³⁰ If I partake with thanks, why be slandered over something I give thanks for?

¹⁶ So don’t let anyone judge you about food or drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or Sabbaths, ¹⁷ which things are but a shadow of those to come, while the body is Christ’s.