John 16:1

Coming Testimony And Rejection

¹ “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. ² They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Fall Away

Stumbling Block

Jesus

John

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Matthew 26:31-33

Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’

John 15:18-27

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

John 16:4

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

1 Peter 2:8

and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

Matthew 13:57

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Matthew 24:10

At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.

John 15:11

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.