Romans 15:3

World English Bible (2000)

For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. 7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. 8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time. 28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
  • John 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do 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 comes, and he has nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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

    2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

  • Rom 15:4
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    4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  • 1 Pet 2:23
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    23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

  • Lam 3:30
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    30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

  • 1 Cor 10:33
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    33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

  • Isa 53:3-4
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    3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.

    4 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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

    8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

  • Rom 14:18
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    18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

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

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

  • Heb 12:3
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    3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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

  • Gal 1:10
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    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    10 Therefore 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.

  • 1 Pet 4:13-14
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    13 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

    14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

  • 1 Pet 4:16
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    16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • Mark 15:32
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    32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

  • 1 Pet 2:19-21
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    19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

    20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

    21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

  • Ps 69:7
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    7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

  • Acts 3:18
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    18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

  • 2 Cor 10:18
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    18 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • Mark 15:28
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    28 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors."

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

  • Phil 2:3
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    3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

  • Heb 13:13
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    13 Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

  • Rom 15:7
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    7 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • Phil 2:5
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    5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  • Heb 10:6
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    6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

  • Luke 23:35
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    35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

  • Ps 69:9
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    9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

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

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Heb 10:8
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    8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But far be it from me to 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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    8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • John 15:25
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    25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'