⁴ Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.^(A)

²⁴ Do not seek your own advantage but that of the other.^(A)

Please Others, Not Yourselves

15 We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.^(A)

⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.^(A)

⁴ Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant^{(A) 5} or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;^(B)

³² Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,^{(A) 33} just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage but that of many, so that they may be saved.^(B)

²² On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³ and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, ²⁴ whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, ²⁵ that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶ If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

¹⁹ Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.^{(A) 20} Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat; ²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.^{[a](B) 22} Hold the conviction that you have as your own before God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves because of what they approve.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?^(A)