Romans 15:2

We should all encourage others to do what's morally right, building them up.

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In The King James Version

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

In Context

1Those of us who are spiritually strong ought to support those who are spiritually weak. We shouldn't just please ourselves.

3Christ didn't live to please himself, but as Scripture says of him, “The insults of those who abused you have fallen on me.”

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:19Even though I am free and serve no one, I have placed myself in service to everyone so that I might gain more.

1 Corinthians 10:33just as I try to please everybody in all I do. I don't think of what benefits me, but what benefits others, so that they may be saved.

Philippians 2:4None of you should be preoccupied about your own things—instead concern yourself with the interests of others too.

Matthew Henry on Romans 15:2-5

Condescension and Self-denial; Tenderness and Generosity. ( a. d. 58.) 1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. The… Read the whole commentary →

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