Romans 15:3-4

For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

 

For Christ did not please himself

2 Corinthians 8:9  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

Matthew 20:28  "... just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Philippians 2:6-8  Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death--even death on a cross!  

"The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." 

Psalm 69:9  ... for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

Psalm 89:50-51  Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations, the taunts with which your enemies, LORD, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us 

Romans 4:23-24  The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness--for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

1 Corinthians 10:11  These things happened to them (see verses 1-10) as examples for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

2 Timothy 3:16-17  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

(parentheses are mine)

  

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