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Be Pleasing Your Neighbor. For Even Christ Didn’t Please Himself, As It Is Written

Let each of us be pleasing his neighbor for good, toward [his] edification. For even Christ did not please Himself, but just as it has been written [in Ps 69:9]: “The reproaches of the ones reproaching You fell upon Me”.

For Scripture Was Written To Give Us Hope As We Endure In This

For all that was written-before was written for our instruction, in order that we might have hope through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures.

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Each of us should please our neighbors for their good,(A) to build them up.(B) For even Christ did not please himself(C) but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”[a](D) For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,(E) so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:3 Psalm 69:9