Romans 14:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

Romans 14:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Romans 14:14
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:22-23
Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. …
Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-23)

We have in this chapter, I. An account of the unhappy contention which had broken out in the Christian church. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. 1. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. one believeth that he may eat all things--See Ac 10:16. another, who is weak, eateth herbs--restricting himself probably to a vegetable diet, for fear of eating what might have been offered to idols, and so would be unclean. (See 1Co 8:1-13).