Romans 15:2

Each of us please to his neighbour in [to] good, to edification.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1But we firmer men owe to sustain [or to bear up] the feeblenesses of sick men, [or (those) unfirm in (the) faith], and not [to] please to ourselves. (But we stronger men ought to bear up the weakness of frail or weak men, or those unstable in the faith, and not to please ourselves.)

3For Christ pleased not to himself (or For the Messiah did not please himself), [but], as it is written, The reproofs of men despising thee, felled on me, [or The reproofs, or shames, of men despising thee, fell on me].

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:19For why when I was free of all men, I made me (a) servant of all men (or I made myself a servant to all men), to win the more men [or (so) that I should win more men].

1 Corinthians 10:33as I by all things please to all men, not seeking that that is profitable to me [or not seeking what is profitable to me], but that that is profitable to many men, that they be made safe (or so that they can be saved).

Philippians 2:4not beholding each by himself what things be his own, but those things that be of other men.

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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