Verse 4

Do not look out only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Let no one seek his own good, but each one the good of others.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Jas 2:8 : 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoever offends one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him that a millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
  • 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
  • 1 Cor 12:22-26 : 22 No, rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty. 24 But our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacked, 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud, 5 Does not behave itself rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs;
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed:
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
  • Rom 14:19-22 : 19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. 21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak. 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
  • 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols? 11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.