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Romans 14:2
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One person believes he may eat anything, while one who is weak eats only vegetables.
For one beleeueth that he may eat all things: another who is weake, eateth herbes.
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.
One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables.
One person believes it is right to eat all kinds of food. But another, who is weak, believes it is right to eat only vegetables.
One man's faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].
One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
For one man has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
One person has the trust that will allow him to eat anything, while another whose trust is weak eats only vegetables.
One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.
Some people believe they can eat any kind of food, but those who have doubts eat only vegetables.
One beleeueth that he may eate of all things: and another, which is weake, eateth herbes.
For one believes that he may eat all things: another who is weak, eats vegetables.
Some people's faith allows them to eat anything, but the person who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables.
One believes he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables.
One indeed believes to eat all things, but being weak, another one eats vegetables.
One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats herbs.
One person believes that he can eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Timothy 4:4; Titus 1:15;">[xr]
For there are some who believe that one may eat every thing, and he who is weak; eateth (only) the herb.
For one man believeth, that he may eat every thing: and he that is feeble, eateth herbs.
One beleueth yt he may eate euery thyng: Another which is weake, eateth hearbes.
One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats herbs.
For one believeth, that he may eat all things; another who is weak, eateth herbs.
One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables.
For another man leueth, that he mai ete alle thingis; but he that is sijk, ete wortis.
One man has faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eats herbs.
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
For instance, one person believes it's all right to eat anything. But another believer with a sensitive conscience will eat only vegetables.
One man believes he may eat everything. Another man with weak faith eats only vegetables.
Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.
One, indeed, hath faith to eat all things, whereas, he that is weak, eateth herbs:
For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.
One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.
One beleveth that he maye eate all thinge. Another which is weake eateth earbes.
one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
One beleueth that he maye eate all thinge: but he that is weake, eateth herbes.
for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.
For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume he should only be a vegetarian and eat accordingly. But since both are guests at Christ's table, wouldn't it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or didn't eat? God, after all, invited them both to the table. Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God's welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.
Let me explain, one might think it's okay to eat anything and another is a vegan.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that: Romans 14:14, 1 Corinthians 10:25, Galatians 2:12, 1 Timothy 4:4, Titus 1:15, Hebrews 9:10, Hebrews 13:9
another: Romans 14:22, Romans 14:23
eateth: Genesis 1:29, Genesis 9:3, Proverbs 15:17, Daniel 1:12, Daniel 1:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:18 - herb Leviticus 11:2 - General Leviticus 11:47 - General 1 Corinthians 8:9 - weak Colossians 2:16 - in meat
Cross-References
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.
was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.
All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
has become a scorching desert of salt and sulfur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the Lord became angry and destroyed them.
The Lord also showed him the land in the south, from the valley near the town of Jericho, known as The City of Palm Trees, down to the town of Zoar.
Another patrol would go west along the road to Beth-Horon. A third patrol would go east toward the desert on the road to the ridge that overlooks Zeboim Valley.
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar and to Eglath-Shelishiyah. They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith; on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters.
Weeping from Heshbon can be heard as far as Elealeh and Jahaz; cries from Zoar are heard in Horonaim and Eglath-Shelishiyah. And Nimrim Creek has run dry.
Israel, I can't let you go. I can't give you up. How could I possibly destroy you as I did the towns of Admah and Zeboiim? I just can't do it. My feelings for you are much too strong.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For one believeth that he may eat all things,.... He is fully persuaded in his mind, that there is nothing in itself common, or unclean; that the difference between clean and unclean meats, commanded to be observed by the law of Moses, is taken away; and that he may now lawfully eat any sort of food; every creature of God being good, and none to be refused, because of the ceremonial law which is abrogated, provided it, be received with thanksgiving, and used to the glory of God:
another who is weak eateth herbs; meaning not one that is sickly and unhealthful, and of a weak constitution, and therefore eats herbs for health's sake; but one that is weak in the faith, and who thinks that the laws concerning the observance of meats and drinks are still in force; and therefore, rather than break any of them, and that he may be sure he does not, will eat nothing but herbs, which are not any of them forbidden by the law: and this he did, either as choosing rather to live altogether on herbs, than to eat anything which the law forbids; or being of opinion with the Essenes among the Jews, and the Pythagoreans among the Gentiles, who thought they were to abstain from eating of all sorts of animals.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For one believeth - This was the case with the Gentiles in general, who had none of the scruples of the Jew about the propriety of eating certain kinds of meat. Many of the converts who had been Jews might also have had the same view as the apostle Paul evidently had while the great mass of Jewish converts might have cherished these scruples.
May eat all things - That is, he will not be restrained by any scruples about the lawfulness of certain meats, etc.
Another who is weak - There is reference here, doubt less, to the Jewish convert. The apostle admits that he was “weak,” that is, not fully established in the views of Christian liberty. The question with the Jew doubtless was, whether it was lawful to eat the meat which was offered in sacrifice to idols. In those sacrifices a part only of the animal was offered, and the remainder was eaten by the worshippers, or offered for sale in the market like other meat. It became an inquiry whether it was lawful to eat this meat; and the question in the mind of a Jew would arise from the express command of his Law; Exodus 34:15. This question the apostle discussed and settled in 1 Corinthians 10:20-32, which see. In that place the general principle is laid down, that it was lawful to partake of that meat as a man would of any other, “unless it was expressly pointed out to him as having been sacrificed to idols, and unless his partaking of it would be considered as countenancing the idolators in their worship;” Rom 14:28. But with this principle many Jewish converts might not have been acquainted; or what is quite as probable, they might not have been disposed to admit its propriety.
Eateth herbs - Herbs or “vegetables” only; does not partake of meat at all, for “fear” of eating that, inadvertently, which had been offered to idols. The Romans abounded in sacrifices to idols; and it would not be easy to be certain that meat which was offered in the market, or on the table of a friend, had not been offered in this manner. To avoid the possibility of partaking of it, even “ignorantly,” they chose to eat no meat at all. The scruples of the Jews on the subject might have arisen in part from the fact that sins of “ignorance” among them subjected them to certain penalties; Leviticus 4:2-3, etc.; Leviticus 5:15; Numbers 15:24, Numbers 15:27-29. Josephus says (Life, Section 3) that in his time there were certain priests of his acquaintance who “supported themselves with figs and nuts.” These priests had been sent to Rome to be tried on some charge before Caesar: and it is probable that they abstained from meat because it might have been offered to idols. It is expressly declared of Daniel when in Babylon, that he lived on pulse and water, that he might not “defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank;” Daniel 1:8-16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 14:2. One believeth that he may eat all things — He believes that whatsoever is wholesome and nourishing, whether herbs or flesh-whether enjoined or forbidden by the Mosaic law - may be safely and conscientiously used by every Christian.
Another, who is weak, eateth herbs. — Certain Jews, lately converted to the Christian faith, and having as yet little knowledge of its doctrines, believe the Mosaic law relative to clean and unclean meats to be still in force; and therefore, when they are in a Gentile country, for fear of being defiled, avoid flesh entirely and live on vegetables. And a Jew when in a heathen country acts thus, because he cannot tell whether the flesh which is sold in the market may be of a clean or unclean beast; whether it may not have been offered to an idol; or whether the blood may have been taken properly from it.
