Matthew 11:6
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6 And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”(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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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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- 2.14 Or natural
Matthew 26:31
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Peter’s Denial Foretold
31 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away[a] because of me this night, for it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’(A)
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- 26.31 Or stumble
Luke 4:23-29
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23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.’ ”(A) 24 And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(B) 25 But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land,(C) 26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 There were also many with a skin disease in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”(D) 28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.(E)
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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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- 9.33 Or it
Luke 11:27-28
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True Blessedness
27 While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!”(A) 28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”(B)
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Matthew 24:10
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10 Then many will fall away,[a] and they will betray one another and hate one another.(A)
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- 24.10 Or stumble
John 6:66
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66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
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John 6:60-61
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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?(A)
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Matthew 18:7
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7 Woe to the world because of things that cause sin![a] Such things are bound to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!(A)
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Matthew 13:55-57
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55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?(A) 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?” 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.”(B)
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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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