<p>15:2 <i>Let each of us please his neighbour for his good, to encourage him- </i>The ordinary people must take responsibility. Each of us should build up his neighbour- and &lsquo;neighbour&rsquo; is usually to be understood in the NT as our neighbour within the ecclesia (Eph. 4:25; James 2:8; 4:12). In the context, encouraging or Gk. 'building up' is by bearing the weaknesses of the weak. According to 14:1 ff., those weaknesses involve their misunderstanding of the Lord's sacrifice and 15:3,4 suggest that these weak brethren insulted the 'stronger'. Building up others, loving our neighbour, was to be by accepting their weaknesses of understanding and conscience.</p>