The Law of Liberty
Romans 14:2
In 9 translations
- BSB
- For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
- KJV
- For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
- WEB
- One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
- ASV
- One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
- LSV
- one believes that he may eat all things—and he who is weak eats herbs;
- YLT
- one doth believe that he may eat all things — and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
- DBY
- One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.
- DRC
- For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.
- GNV
- One beleeueth that he may eate of all things: and another, which is weake, eateth herbes.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὃς μὲν πιστεύει φαγεῖν πάντα, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενῶν λάχανα ἐσθίει.
- RP2018
- Ὃς μὲν πιστεύει φαγεῖν πάντα, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενῶν λάχανα ἐσθίει.
- TR-Boyd
- Ὃς μὲν πιστεύει φαγεῖν πάντα, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενῶν λάχανα ἐσθίει.
- SCR1894
- ος μεν πιστευει φαγειν παντα ο δε ασθενων λαχανα εσθιει
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
VegetariansEvilTolerationCharitablenessUncharitablenessFoodDiet of the Jews, TheHerbs, &CConscienceSelf-Denial
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- Proverbs 15:17Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Romans 14:14I 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 2:12For 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.
- Romans 14:22–23Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from…
- Genesis 9:3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- Titus 1:15To 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 13:9Do 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Hebrews 9:10They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
- Daniel 1:12“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- Daniel 1:16So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
- Genesis 1:29Then 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.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).