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Romans 15:2

but do what pleases them and is for their good. We should do whatever helps everyone grow stronger in faith.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Commandments;   Example;   Fellowship;   Kindness;   Love;   Neighbor;   Righteousness;   Self-Denial;   Selfishness;   Unselfishness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Duty;   Edification;   Neighbours, Duty to;   Social Life;   The Topic Concordance - Burden;   Edification;   Help;   Hope;   Jesus Christ;   Patience;   Scripture;   Teaching;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Romans, letter to the;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Strong and Weak;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Fellowship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Edification;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Building ;   Debt, Debtor;   Edification;   Example;   Expediency;   Goodness (Human);   Neighbour;   Offence;   Offence (2);   Romans Epistle to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Edification;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Each one of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
King James Version (1611)
Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.
King James Version
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
English Standard Version
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
New American Standard Bible
Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
New Century Version
Let each of us please our neighbors for their good, to help them be stronger in faith.
Amplified Bible
Let each one of us [make it a practice to] please his neighbor for his good, to build him up spiritually.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
Legacy Standard Bible
Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his building up.
Berean Standard Bible
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Contemporary English Version
We should think of their good and try to help them by doing what pleases them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each of us should please his neighbor and act for his good, thus building him up.
Darby Translation
Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore let euery man please his neighbour in that that is good to edification.
George Lamsa Translation
Let every one of us please his neighbor in good and constructive ways.
Good News Translation
Instead, we should all please other believers for their own good, in order to build them up in the faith.
Lexham English Bible
Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.
Literal Translation
For let each one of us please his neighbor for good, to building up.
American Standard Version
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.
Bible in Basic English
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
Hebrew Names Version
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
International Standard Version
Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building him up.Romans 14:19; 1 Corinthians 9:19,22; 13:5; Philippians 2:4-5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But let every one of us please his neighbour in good things as unto edification.
Murdock Translation
But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let euery man please his neygbour, in that that is good to edifiyng.
English Revised Version
Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, unto edifying.
World English Bible
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let every one of us please his neighbour, for his good, to edification.
Weymouth's New Testament
Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Eche of vs plese to his neiybore in good, to edificacioun.
Update Bible Version
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to edifying.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let every one of us please [his] neighbor for [his] good to edification.
New English Translation
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
New King James Version
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.
New Living Translation
We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord.
New Life Bible
Each of us should live to please his neighbor. This will help him grow in faith.
New Revised Standard
Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, each one of us, unto his neighbour give pleasure - for what is good unto upbuilding;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification.
Revised Standard Version
let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Let every man please his neghbour vnto his welth and edyfyinge.
Young's Literal Translation
for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let euery one of vs ordre himselfe so, that he please his neghboure vnto his welth, and edifienge:
Mace New Testament (1729)
let every one of us consult the good of his neighbour to his edification.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Build each other up and help them to become top hands as well.

Contextual Overview

1 Some of us have no problem with these things. So we should be patient with those who are not so strong and have doubts. We should not do what pleases us 2 but do what pleases them and is for their good. We should do whatever helps everyone grow stronger in faith. 3 Even Christ did not live trying to please himself. As the Scriptures say about him, "Those people who insulted you have also insulted me." 4 Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us. Those things were written so that we could have hope. That hope comes from the patience and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 14:19, 1 Corinthians 9:19-22, 1 Corinthians 10:24, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 11:1, 1 Corinthians 13:5, Philippians 2:4, Philippians 2:5, Titus 2:9, Titus 2:10

Reciprocal: Matthew 11:19 - came Matthew 22:39 - neighbour Mark 6:34 - saw Romans 14:15 - now Romans 14:21 - good 1 Corinthians 10:23 - edify 1 Corinthians 14:3 - edification 2 Corinthians 4:5 - and Galatians 1:10 - for if Galatians 5:13 - but Ephesians 4:12 - the edifying Colossians 3:13 - Forbearing 1 Thessalonians 5:11 - and edify Hebrews 10:24 - consider

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After all these things happened, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. God said, "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you and give you a great reward."
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , there is nothing you can give me that will make me happy, because I have no son. My slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "You have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will get everything I have."
Genesis 15:4
Then the Lord spoke to Abram and said, "That slave will not be the one to get what you have. You will have a son who will get everything you own."
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord , and because of this faith the Lord accepted him as one who has done what is right.
Genesis 24:2
Abraham's oldest servant was in charge of everything he owned. Abraham called that servant to him and said, "Put your hand under my leg.
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac's wife could not have children. So Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and he allowed Rebekah to become pregnant.
Genesis 39:9
My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I cannot sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God."
Genesis 43:19
So the brothers went to the servant in charge of Joseph's house.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let everyone of us please his neighbour,.... Every man, particularly his Christian friend and brother, whom he should seek to please in all things, and by all means lawful; he should carry it affably and courteously, should make himself agreeable to him; should condescend and accommodate himself to his weakness, and bear his infirmities, and deny himself rather than displease him. The Vulgate Latin version and some copies read, "let everyone of you"; but the other reading is preferable, and best agrees with the context, Romans 15:1.

For his good; or as the Syriac renders it, בטבתא, "in good things"; for he is not to be pleased, gratified, and indulged, in any thing that is evil: we are not to please any man in anything that is contrary to the Gospel of Christ, for then we should not be faithful servants of his; nor in anything repugnant to the commands of God, and ordinances of Christ, who are to be obeyed and pleased, rather than men; nor in anything that is of an immoral nature, we are not to comply with, though it may be to the displeasure of the dearest relation and friend; but in everything that is naturally, civilly, morally, or evangelically good, we should study to please them; and in whatsoever may be for their good, temporal, spiritual, or eternal: and

to edification: of our neighbour, brother, and Christian friend, for the establishment of his peace, the increase of his spiritual light, and the building of him up in his most holy faith; and also of the whole community, or church, to which each belong, whose peace and edification should be consulted, and everything done, which may promote and secure it; and among which this is one, every man to please his neighbour, in things lawful and laudable.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Please his neighbour - That is, all other persons, but especially the friends of the Redeemer. The word “neighbor” here has special reference to the members of the church. It is often used, however, in a much larger sense; see Luke 10:36.

For his good - Not seek to secure for him indulgence in those things which Would be injurious to him, but in all those things whereby his welfare would be promoted.

To edification - See the note at Romans 14:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 15:2. Let every one of us please his neighbour — For it should be a maxim with each of us to do all in our power to please our brethren; and especially in those things in which their spiritual edification is concerned. Though we should not indulge men in mere whims and caprices, yet we should bear with their ignorance and their weakness, knowing that others had much to bear with from us before we came to our present advanced state of religious knowledge.


 
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