The Strong Must Bear With The Weak

Paul has been instructing the church in how we are to love one another as God commands. With these verses, the apostle exhorts those who are strong in faith to use their strength to bear with the failings of the weak. The motivation and the means by which the strong are to bear with the weak is the Lord Jesus Christ. For Jesus Christ, the strongest of all, went to the cross for us, so by faith in Christ those who are strong can and must love the weak.