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Romans 15:3–5

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For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
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From verse 3

  1. Psalms 69:9Rank 1 from verse 3
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    9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

  2. Philippians 2:8Rank 2 from verse 3
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    8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

  3. John 4:34Rank 3 from verse 3
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    34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

  4. John 5:30Rank 4 from verse 3
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    30I 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.

  5. John 6:38Rank 5 from verse 3
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    38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

  6. Psalms 89:50–51Rank 6 from verse 3
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    50Remember, 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.

  7. 2 Corinthians 8:9Rank 7 from verse 3
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    9For 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.

  8. John 12:27–28Rank 8 from verse 3
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    27Now 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.

  9. John 8:29Rank 9 from verse 3
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    29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

  10. Matthew 10:25Rank 10 from verse 3
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    25It 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?

  11. Matthew 26:42Rank 11 from verse 3
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    42He 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.

  12. Psalms 69:20Rank 12 from verse 3
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    20Reproach 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.

  13. Psalms 40:6–8Rank 13 from verse 3
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    6Sacrifice 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.

  14. John 14:30–31Rank 14 from verse 3
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    30Hereafter 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.

  15. John 15:10Rank 15 from verse 3
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    10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

  16. John 15:24Rank 16 from verse 3
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    24If 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.

  17. Matthew 26:39Rank 17 from verse 3
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    39And 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.

From verse 4

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:11Rank 1 from verse 4
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    11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

  2. 2 Timothy 3:16–17Rank 2 from verse 4
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    16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

    17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

  3. Romans 4:23–24Rank 3 from verse 4
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    23Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

    24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

  4. 2 Peter 1:20–21Rank 4 from verse 4
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    20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

    21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

  5. Hebrews 10:35–36Rank 5 from verse 4
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    35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

    36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

  6. Romans 12:12Rank 6 from verse 4
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    12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

  7. 1 Corinthians 9:9–10Rank 7 from verse 4
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    9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

    10Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

  8. Romans 8:24–25Rank 8 from verse 4
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    24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

    25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

  9. 1 Peter 1:13Rank 9 from verse 4
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    13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  10. Romans 5:3–5Rank 10 from verse 4
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    3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

    4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

    5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

  11. James 5:7–11Rank 11 from verse 4
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    7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

    8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

    9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

    10Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

    11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

  12. Psalms 119:81–83Rank 12 from verse 4
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    81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

    82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

    83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  13. Hebrews 6:10–19Rank 13 from verse 4
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    10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

    11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

    12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

    13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

    14Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

    15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

    16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

    17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

    18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

    19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

From verse 5

  1. Philippians 2:4–5Rank 1 from verse 5
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    4Look 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:

  2. Romans 15:13Rank 2 from verse 5
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    13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

  3. 1 Peter 3:8Rank 3 from verse 5
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    8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

  4. Romans 12:16Rank 4 from verse 5
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    16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

  5. Ephesians 5:2Rank 5 from verse 5
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    2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

  6. 2 Corinthians 13:11Rank 6 from verse 5
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    11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

  7. 1 Corinthians 1:10Rank 7 from verse 5
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    10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

  8. Psalms 86:5Rank 8 from verse 5
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    5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

  9. Exodus 34:6Rank 9 from verse 5
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    6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

  10. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4Rank 10 from verse 5
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    3Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

    4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

  11. Philippians 2:2Rank 11 from verse 5
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    2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

  12. Philippians 1:27Rank 12 from verse 5
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    27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

  13. Philippians 4:2Rank 13 from verse 5
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    2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

  14. 2 Peter 3:15Rank 14 from verse 5
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    15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

  15. Acts 4:32Rank 15 from verse 5
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    32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

  16. Ezekiel 11:19Rank 16 from verse 5
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    19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

  17. 2 Chronicles 30:12Rank 17 from verse 5
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    12Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.

  18. Philippians 3:16Rank 18 from verse 5
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    16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

  19. 2 Peter 3:9Rank 19 from verse 5
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    9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  20. Romans 15:3Rank 20 from verse 5
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    3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

  21. 2 Corinthians 7:6Rank 21 from verse 5
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    6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

  22. Jeremiah 32:39Rank 22 from verse 5
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    39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

  23. 1 Peter 3:20Rank 23 from verse 5
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    20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

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Romans 15:3

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

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Christ

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The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

pleased

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Past-tense, past-participial, or adjectival form of please. Sense 1: Gave pleasure or satisfaction to, was agreeable or acceptable to, or was gratified. Sense 2: Chose, desired, willed, or saw fit.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

written

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Past-tense or past-participial form of write (to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing).

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fell

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1. Came or went down; dropped, bowed, lay flat, collapsed, or lost an upright or raised place. 2. Was slain, died, was overthrown, or came under another's hand or power. 3. Came upon, seized, or affected someone or something, or entered a stated condition such as sickness, sleep, fear, lusting, or a trance. 4. Attacked or set upon. 5. Happened or came to pass. 6. Joined, yielded, went over, or departed from a person, side, office, or former standing. 7. Was assigned or determined by lot or portion. 8. As the present verb fell, to cut or bring down a tree or other standing thing.

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on

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1. At, upon, or in contact with the named place, object, side, or time. 2. Toward, against, concerning, depending upon, or directed to the named person or thing. 3. Forward or continuing; in joined expressions such as go on, put on, and lay hold on, the other words supply the particular action.

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DEFINED WORDS

Romans 15:4

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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whatsoever

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Whatever, anything that, or every thing of the kind or within the condition and scope stated.

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written

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Past-tense or past-participial form of write (to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing).

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learning

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of learn, meaning to gain knowledge, receive instruction, or come to know.

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comfort

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Sense 1: Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress. Sense 2: To strengthen, encourage, or console.

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

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hope

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1. Expectation, trust, reliance, or the good expected. 2. The person or ground on which expectation rests. 3. To expect, look for, trust, or rely upon.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 15:5

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grant

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Sense 1: To give, bestow, allow, or confer, especially in answer to a request. Sense 2: A gift, allowance, or permission conferred by one in authority.

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COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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toward

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1. In the direction of or in relation to. 2. Approaching. 3. Inclined or ready.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

another

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1. In "one another" and like reciprocal or distributive constructions, each the other, or one in relation to the other or others. 2. One other, one more, or a different or additional person or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

Christ

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The Anointed One; the same title as Messias.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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15:1WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

15:2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

15:3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

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15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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15:5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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15:6That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15:7Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

15:8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

15:9And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

15:10And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

15:12And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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