Romans 15:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:9

It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Matthew 10:25

it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!

Matthew 26:39

And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”

Matthew 26:42

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

Matthew 27:44

The rebels who were crucified with him also taunted him in the same way.

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38

for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 8:29

And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Philippians 2:5

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:8

he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.