Romans 15:3

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For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one 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 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings. 7 Then I say,“Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me. 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come 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 threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,“My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 He went away a second time and prayed,“My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must 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 complete his work.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
  • John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
  • John 14:30-31 : 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me, 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 15:1-2
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    1Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

    2Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

  • Rom 15:4
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    4For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

  • 1 Pet 2:23
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    23When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

  • Lam 3:30
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    30Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek 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 people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

    4But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.

  • Phil 2:7-8
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    7but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

    8He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross!

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

  • Phil 2:21
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    21Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

  • Ps 55:12
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    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

  • Heb 12:3
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    3Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

  • Mark 15:30
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    30save yourself and come down from the cross!”

  • Gal 1:10
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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3We do not give anyone an occasion for taking an offense in anything, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    10Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

  • 1 Pet 4:13-14
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    13But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.

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

  • 1 Pet 4:16
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    16But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

  • Mark 15:32
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    32Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

  • 1 Pet 2:19-21
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    19For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

    20For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

    21For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.

  • Ps 69:7
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    7For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets– that his Christ would suffer– he has fulfilled in this way.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

  • Phil 2:3
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    3Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

  • Heb 13:13
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    13We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.

  • Rom 15:7
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    7Exhortation to Mutual Acceptance Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

  • 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 him who died for them and was raised.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

  • Heb 10:6
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    6“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

  • Luke 23:35
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    35The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying,“He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

  • Ps 69:9
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    9Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

  • Rom 12:15
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    15Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

  • Heb 10:8
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    8When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Heb 5:8
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    8Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

  • John 15:25
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    25Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’