John 16:1

Coming Testimony And Rejection

¹ "I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks. ² Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

Fall Away

Stumbling Block

Jesus

John

Matthew 11:6

And happy is the man who finds no cause for stumbling over me."

Matthew 13:21

but it takes no real root in him, and he lasts only a little while, and just as soon as suffering and persecution come for the truth's sake, he at once yields and falls.

Matthew 26:31-33

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me tonight, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

John 15:18-27

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

John 16:4

But I have told you these things that when the time does come, you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you these things at the start, because I was with you.

Romans 14:21

The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

1 Peter 2:8

and: "A stone for them to stumble over and a rock to trip them up." They keep on stumbling over the message, because they are disobedient to it, and this is their appointed doom.

Matthew 13:57

And so they found a cause for stumbling over Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood and in his own home." And so

Matthew 24:10

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

John 15:11

"I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.