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.
Romans 15:3 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me. [Ps. 69:9.] American Standard Version (1901) For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. Common English Bible Christ didn’t please himself, but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insulted you fell on me.” Catholic Public Domain Version For even Christ did not please himself, but as it was written: "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell upon me. |
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.
It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
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!
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.”
Again he went away for the second time and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
The bandits who were crucified with him also taunted him in the same way.
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.
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.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
“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.
for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”
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.
he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.