Isaiah 57:14
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Healing for the Backslider
14 And one shall say,
(A)“Heap it up! Heap it up!
Prepare the way,
Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.”
Isaiah 62:10
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10 Go through,
Go through the gates!
(A)Prepare the way for the people;
Build up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
(B)Lift up a banner for the peoples!
Isaiah 40:3
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3 (A)The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(B)“Prepare the way of the Lord;
(C)Make straight [a]in the desert
A highway for our God.
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- Isaiah 40:3 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX omits in the desert
Isaiah 35:8
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8 A (A)highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
(B)The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.
Luke 3:5-6
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5 Every valley shall be filled
And every mountain and hill brought low;
The crooked places shall be made straight
And the rough ways smooth;
6 And (A)all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’ ”
Jeremiah 18:15
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15 “Because My people have forgotten (A)Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the (B)ancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
1 Corinthians 8:13
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13 Therefore, (A)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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Romans 14:13
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13 Therefore let us not judge one another [a]anymore, but rather resolve this, (A)not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
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- Romans 14:13 any longer
Hebrews 12:13
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13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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2 Corinthians 6:3
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3 (A)We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.
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1 Corinthians 10:32-33
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32 (A)Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just (B)as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians 1:23
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23 but we preach Christ crucified, (A)to the Jews a [a]stumbling block and to the [b]Greeks (B)foolishness,
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- 1 Corinthians 1:23 Gr. skandalon, offense
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 NU Gentiles
1 Corinthians 8:9
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9 But (A)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become (B)a [a]stumbling block to those who are weak.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:9 cause of offense
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