KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Romans 15:1–3
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Romans 15:1
1WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1¶ Wee then that are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, and not to please our selues.
Romans 15:2
2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
2Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Romans 15:3
3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
3For euen Christ pleased not himselfe, but as it is written, *The reproches of them that reproched thee, fell on mee.
- Psal. 69.9.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 15:1
Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To carry, support, endure, produce, bring forth, or sustain, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
infirmities
Weakness, frailty, sickness, or affliction, whether bodily or otherwise as the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Lacking physical strength, power, firmness, or ability.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The reflexive or emphatic pronoun referring to the speaker together with others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Romans 15:2
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
edification
Spiritual or moral instruction that builds up the hearer.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
DEFINED WORDS
Romans 15:3
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Gratified; affected with agreeable sensations or emotions.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
reproaches
Shame; infamy; disgrace. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
reproached
Censured, reviled, taunted, or addressed with contempt or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Fell or dropped down; as an adjective, fierce or cruel; as a noun, an animal skin, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
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Open the full verse study1HIM that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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Open the full verse study22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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Open the full verse study1BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
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Open the full verse study22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
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Open the full verse study14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
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Open the full verse study1THOU therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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Open the full verse study20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
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Open the full verse study10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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Open the full verse study10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study24Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
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Open the full verse study19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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Open the full verse study4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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Open the full verse study5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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Open the full verse study9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
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Open the full verse study8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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Open the full verse study34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
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Open the full verse study30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
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Open the full verse study38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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Open the full verse study50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
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Open the full verse study9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
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Open the full verse study27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
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Open the full verse study29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
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Open the full verse study25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
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Open the full verse study42He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
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Open the full verse study20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
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Open the full verse study6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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Open the full verse study30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
31But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
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Open the full verse study10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
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Open the full verse study24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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Open the full verse study39And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
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