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Romans 14 Bible study: We are the Lord’s
Romans 14 opens with "Now accept one who is weak in faith" (14:1) and says "God has accepted him" (14:3); in the Greek, accept and accepted are one verb, and it comes back in "accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you" (15:7). And the chapter ends in praise "to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ" (14:26).
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“For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.”
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“In Romans 14:10, the letter asks why you despise your brother.”
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Accept one who is weak in faith
The chapter opens, "Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions." (14:1) (tap accept). It goes on, "One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables." (14:2), and it says something to each of them: "Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him." (14:3) (tap despise). Then it asks, "Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand." (14:4) (tap servant). The next chapter comes back to the same verb: "Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God." (15:7). These notes name no person or group as the one weak in faith, set no food, drink, day or practice today as weak or strong, and apply none of it to anyone.
Where the Old Testament leads here
Every knee will bow
Isaiah 45:23leads toRomans 14:10-11
The LORD says, "I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath" (Isaiah 45:23). Paul writes, "For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living" (Romans 14:9), and then, "For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”" (Romans 14:10-11). He goes on, "So then each one of us will give account of himself to God" (Romans 14:12). Paul gives the words with "it is written", straight after "the judgment seat of Christ". The WEB words the two differently: where Isaiah 45:23 has "every tongue shall take an oath", Romans has "Every tongue will confess to God".
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The Greek word behind it
προσλαμβάνωproslambanosay pros-lam-BAN-o
Thayer lists 14:1 where he gives "to receive, i. e. grant one access to one's heart; to take into friendship and contact". "Now accept one who is weak in faith" (14:1), and "for God has accepted him" (14:3): behind accept and accepted is this one verb. Romans has it four times (counted in RP2018), the other two in one verse of the next chapter: "Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God." (15:7).
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Romans 14 Bible study questions
- 1"Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions." (14:1). What helps someone feel welcome when they come into a group like this one?
- 2"For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself." (14:7). Who has shown you what it looks like not to live to yourself?
- 3"let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up" (14:19). What is one small way we could build one another up this week?
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