Romans 15:3
For even Christ did not please himself. Instead, it was just as it is written, “The insults of those who insulted you fell on me.”
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In Context
2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, in order to build him up.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6You have no delight in sacrifice or offering, 1 but you have opened my ears; 1 you have not required burnt offerings or sin offerings. 1
Psalms 69:20Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; 1 I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; 1 I looked for comforters, but I found none. 1
Matthew 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he should be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much worse would be the names they call the members of his household!
Matthew 26:42He went away a second time and prayed. He said, “My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, your will be done.”
John 5:30I can do nothing from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I am not seeking my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 8:29He who sent me is with me, and he has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”
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 →