Please Others, Not Yourselves

15 We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

³ For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, ‘The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.’

² and live in love, as Christ loved us^[a] and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Imitating Christ’s Humility

2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, ² make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. ³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. ⁴ Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. ⁵ Let the same mind be in you that was^[a] in Christ Jesus,