Romans 15:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
  • John 5:30 : 30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request. 7 Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book, 8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour. 28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
  • John 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.
  • John 14:30-31 : 30 After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me; 31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

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  • Rom 15:1-2
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    1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

    2 Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

  • Rom 15:4
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    4 Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

  • 1 Pet 2:23
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    23 To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:

  • Lam 3:30
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    30 Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33 Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

  • Isa 53:3-4
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    3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

    4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

  • Phil 2:7-8
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    7 But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

    8 And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

  • Rom 14:18
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    18 And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

  • Phil 2:21
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    21 For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17 Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

  • Heb 12:3
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    3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

  • Mark 15:30
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    30 Keep yourself from death, and come down from the cross.

  • Gal 1:10
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    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    10 So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

  • 1 Pet 4:13-14
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    13 But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

    14 If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

  • 1 Pet 4:16
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    16 But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • Mark 15:32
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    32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and have belief. And those who were put on crosses with him said evil things against him.

  • 1 Pet 2:19-21
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    19 For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.

    20 What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

    21 This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

  • Ps 69:7
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    7 I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18 But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

  • 2 Cor 10:18
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    18 For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • Mark 15:28
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  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

  • Phil 2:3
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    3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

  • Heb 13:13
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    13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.

  • Rom 15:7
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    7 So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5 Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

  • Heb 10:6
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    6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

  • Luke 23:35
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    35 And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

  • Ps 69:9
    68%

    9 I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • Heb 10:8
    67%

    8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

  • Heb 5:8
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    8 And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

  • John 15:25
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    25 This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.