Romans Chapter 15 verse 1 Holy Bible
Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
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But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
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Romans 15 : 1 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1 - Romans 16:24. - IV. SUPPLEMENTARY. (See summary of contents, p. 16.) Questions have been raised and much discussed as to the connection of the last two chapters, 15. and 16, with the rest of the Epistle. The facts and the opinions founded on them may be summarized as follows. (1) There is sufficient proof that in early times copies of the Epistle existed without these two chapters. The evidence is this - (a) Origen (on Romans 16:25-27) speaks of some copies in his time being without the concluding doxology, and also without any part of these two chapters, attributing the omission to Marcion, for his own purposes, having mutilated the Epistle. His words are, "Caput hoc (i.e. Romans 16:25-27) Marcion, a quo scripturae evangelicae et apostolicae interpolatae sunt, de hac Epistola penitus abstulit; et non solum hoe, sod ab hoc loco ubi scriptum est, Omne autem quod non ex fide est peccatum est (i.e. Romans 14:23) usque ad finem cuncta dissecuit." Tertullian also ('Contra Marcion') speaks of Marcion having mutilated this Epistle, though not specifying these two chapters. (b) In Codex Amiatinus (a manuscript of the Latin Bible of the sixth century) there is a prefixed table of contents, referring by numbers to the sections into which the Epistle was divided, and describing the subject of each section. In this table the fiftieth section is thus described: "On the peril of one who grieves his brother by his meat," plainly denoting Romans 14:15-23; and the next and concluding section is described thus: "On the mystery of the Lord kept secret before his Passion, but after his Passion revealed," which description can only refer to the doxology of Romans 16:25-27. Hence it would seem that in some Latin copy of the Epistle to which the table of contents referred, the doxology followed Romans 14:23 with nothing between. . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) We then that are strong.--The opening verses of the chapter are intimately connected with the close of the last. Not only ought those who are strong in faith to be careful what they do in the matter of meat and drink, but in all things they should show sympathy and consideration for their weaker brethren. This unbroken continuity in the two chapters would be enough to show that the Epistle cannot originally have ended with Romans 14.Bear the infirmities.--Take them upon ourselves, act as if they were our own, and, at the same time, by our sympathy relieve the consciences of the weak.
