Romans 15:3
Good News Translation
For Christ did not please himself. Instead, as the scripture says, "The insults which are hurled at you have fallen on me."

New Revised Standard Version
For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

Contemporary English Version
Even Christ did not try to please himself. But as the Scriptures say, "The people who insulted you also insulted me."

New American Bible
For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Christ.

Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: . . .

Matthew 26:39,42 And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt. . . .

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

John 5:30 I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.

John 6:38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For I do always the things that please him.

John 12:27,28 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour. . . .

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Philippians 2:8 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

The.

Psalm 69:9,20 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. . . .

Psalm 89:50,51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: . . .

Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?

John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Context
Accept One Another
2Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification. 3For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. 4For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.…
Cross References
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Matthew 27:44
And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

Philippians 2:5
For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Romans 15:2
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