Romans 15:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Romans 15:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Romans 14:19
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Philippians 2:4-5
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. …
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

The apostle here lays down two precepts, with reasons to enforce them, showing the duty of the strong Christian to consider and condescend to the weakest. I. We must bear the infirmities of the weak, Rom. 15:1. We all have our infirmities; but the weak are more subject to them than others—the weak in knowledge or grace, the bruised reed and the smoking flax. We must consider these; not trample upo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2-3. Let every one of us--lay himself out to please his neighbour--not indeed for his mere gratification, but for his good--with a view to his edification.