1. And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
2. for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,
3. for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'
4. for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.