Romans 15:3

American Standard Version (1901)

For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, My Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!
  • John 8:29 : 29 And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone; for I do always the things that are pleasing to him.
  • John 14:30-31 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 15:1-2
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    1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

    2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.

  • 4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

  • 23who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:

  • 30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

  • 33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.

  • Isa 53:3-4
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    3He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

    4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

  • Phil 2:7-8
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    7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

    8and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

  • 18For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

  • 21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

  • 12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

  • 17For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

  • 3For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

  • 30save thyself, and come down from the cross.

  • 10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

  • 15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • 3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

  • 10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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    13but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

    14If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye] ; because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.

  • 16but if [a man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.

  • 6nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him.

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    19For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

    20For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

    21For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

  • 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

  • 18But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

  • 18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

  • 5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • 30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 28(Ommitted)

  • 15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

  • 3[ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

  • 13Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

  • 7Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

  • 15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • 5Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

  • 6In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure:

  • 35And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also scoffed at him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen.

  • 9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

  • 15Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

  • 16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

  • 8Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),

  • 14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

  • 13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • 25But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.