1 Corinthians 1:23
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23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles,(A)
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1 Peter 2:8
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8 and
“A stone that makes them stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.(A)
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1 Corinthians 2:14
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14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A)
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1 Corinthians 2:2
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2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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Galatians 5:11
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11 But my brothers and sisters, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
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1 Corinthians 1:18
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Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.(A)
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Luke 2:34
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34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed(A)
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Isaiah 8:14-15
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14 He will become a sanctuary, a stone one strikes against; for both houses of Israel he will become a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(A) 15 And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”(B)
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Galatians 6:14
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14 May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.(A)
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John 6:53-66
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53 So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.(A) 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day,(B) 55 for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.(C) 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which the ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59 He said these things while he was teaching in a synagogue at Capernaum.
The Words of Eternal Life
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” 61 But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you?(D) 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?(E) 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But among you there are some who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones who did not believe and who was the one who would betray him.(F) 65 And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.”(G)
66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
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Matthew 13:57
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57 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor except in their own hometown and in their own house.”(A)
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Matthew 11:6
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6 And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”(A)
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Ephesians 3:8
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8 Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ(A)
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Galatians 3:1
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Law or Faith
3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.(A)
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1 Corinthians 1:28
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28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,
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Romans 9:32-33
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32 Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,(A) 33 as it is written,
“See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall,
and whoever trusts in him[a] will not be put to shame.”(B)
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Acts 10:39-43
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39 We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,(A) 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear,(B) 41 not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.(C) 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead.(D) 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”(E)
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Luke 24:46-47
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46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day(A) 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.(B)
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Acts 7:32-35
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32 ‘I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.(A) 33 Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.(B) 34 I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’(C)
35 “It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.(D)
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