1. Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2. Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, unto edifying.
3. For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.
4. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
5. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus: