1. But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2. Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.
3. For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.
4. For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
5. Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;
6. that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to the glory of God.
8. For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;
9. and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.