Romans 15:3

Even Christ did not please Himself but bore reproach, as Scripture foretold. The Lord's self-denial is the pattern for ours.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
• Phil 2:8And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• Ps 89:50–51Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• John 12:27–28“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
• Ps 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
• Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
• John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
• Matt 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
• Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
• Matt 26:39He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
• John 14:30–31I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• John 15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

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