Romans 15:3

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For even Christ did not please Himself; as it is written: 'The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.'

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.'
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 You, LORD my God, have done many wonderful works, and Your plans are beyond comparison. If I tried to declare and speak of them, they are too numerous to count. 7 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared my ears to listen; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But this is why I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will."
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 A second time He went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done."
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Where is your steadfast love of old, LORD, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? 51 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the insults of many peoples.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his household!
  • John 8:29 : 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."
  • John 14:30-31 : 30 I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me. 31 But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 15:1-2
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    76%

    1We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.

    2Each of us should please our neighbor for their good, to build them up.

  • Rom 15:4
    74%

    4For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

  • 1 Pet 2:23
    73%

    23When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

  • Lam 3:30
    71%

    30Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33Just as I also try to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

  • Isa 53:3-4
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    3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

    4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, 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 humanity. And being found in appearance as a man,

    8He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.

  • Rom 14:18
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    18For anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

  • Phil 2:21
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    21For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12Destruction is in its midst; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

  • Heb 12:3
    69%

    3Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

  • Mark 15:30
    69%

    30'save Yourself by coming down from the cross!'

  • Gal 1:10
    69%

    10For am I now trying to win the approval of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
    69%

    15But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    69%

    3We give no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited.

  • 2 Cor 12:10
    69%

    10Therefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

  • 1 Pet 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

    14If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

  • 1 Pet 4:16
    68%

    16However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
    68%

    6We did not seek glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

  • Mark 15:32
    68%

    32'Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!' Even those who were crucified with Him also insulted Him.

  • 1 Pet 2:19-21
    3 verses
    68%

    19For this is commendable: if someone endures grief, suffering unjustly because of their conscience toward God.

    20What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God.

    21To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7Let those who hope in you, Lord God of Hosts, not be ashamed because of me; let those who seek you, God of Israel, not be humiliated because of me.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But God fulfilled what He had foretold through the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

  • 2 Cor 10:18
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    18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • Phil 1:30
    68%

    30since you are experiencing the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

  • Mark 15:28
    68%

    28In this way, the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'He was numbered with the transgressors.'

  • 1 Thess 2:15
    68%

    15They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.

  • Phil 2:3
    68%

    3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

  • Heb 13:13
    68%

    13Therefore, let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

  • Rom 15:7
    68%

    7Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, to the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:

  • Heb 10:6
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    6You were not pleased with whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin.

  • Luke 23:35
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    35The people stood watching, and the rulers even mocked Him, saying, 'He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.'

  • Ps 69:9
    68%

    9I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.

  • Rom 12:15
    68%

    15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

  • Rom 14:16
    68%

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • Heb 10:8
    67%

    8After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law—

  • Gal 6:14
    67%

    14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Heb 5:8
    67%

    8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
    67%

    13Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • John 15:25
    67%

    25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'