Unity
This week's verses are Romans 15:1-7 : But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “ The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me .” For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope. Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus, so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory. These verses follow a long discussion by Paul the Apostle about doctrinal disputes in the early church. People had differing views of what it meant to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols. This was me...