“But we who are stronger ought to bear the weaknesses of the infirm, and not to please ourselves. In these words Paul appears to declare himself one of the strong, just as he also says in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, that I became weak to the weak, that I might gain the weak. For there too he does not say that…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
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1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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— Romans 15:1 —
2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.