Romans 15:3

The Passion Translation

For not even the most powerful one of all, the Anointed One, lived to please himself. His life fulfilled the Scripture that says: All the insults of those who insulted you fall upon me.

Cross References

Psalm 69:20

I’m heartsick and heartbroken by it all. Their contempt has crushed my soul. I looked for sympathy and compassion but found only empty stares.

Psalm 69:9

My love for you has my heart on fire! My passion for your house consumes me! Nothing will turn me away, even though I endure all the insults of those who insult you.

Matthew 10:25

The student must be satisfied to share his teacher’s fate and the servant his master’s. If they have called the head of the family ‘lord of flies,’ no wonder they malign the members of his family.

Matthew 26:39

Then he walked a short distance away, and overcome with grief, he threw himself facedown on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if there is any way you can deliver me from this suffering, please take it from me. Yet what I want is not important, for I only desire to fulfill your plan for me.” Then an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him.

Matthew 26:42

Then he left them for a second time to pray in solitude. He said to God, “My Father, if there is not a way that you can deliver me from this suffering, then your will must be done.”

Matthew 27:44

Even the two criminals who were crucified with Jesus began to taunt him, hurling their insults on him.

John 15:10

If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love.

John 15:24

If I had not performed miracles in their presence like no one else has done, they would not feel the guilt of their sins. But now, they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 4:34

To clarify, Jesus spoke up and said, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and bring it to completion.”

John 5:30

“Nothing I do is from my own initiative. As I hear the judgment passed by my Father, I execute those judgments. And my judgments will be perfect, because I seek only to fulfill the desires of my Father who sent me.

John 6:38

And I have come out of heaven not for my own desires, but for the satisfaction of my Father who sent me.

John 8:29

I am his messenger and he is always with me, for I only do that which delights his heart.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you have experienced the extravagant grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was infinitely rich, he impoverished himself for our sake, so that by his poverty, we become rich beyond measure.

Philippians 2:5

And consider the example that Jesus, the Anointed One, has set before us. Let his mindset become your motivation.

Philippians 2:8

He humbled himself and became vulnerable, choosing to be revealed as a man and was obedient. He was a perfect example, even in his death—a criminal’s death by crucifixion!