Romans 15:2

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Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.

Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,