1 Corinthians 1:23
but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,
1 Corinthians 2:14
The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!
Luke 2:34
"Behold this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
1 Corinthians 2:2
for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.
1 Peter 2:8
and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!
Matthew 11:6
"And blessed is the man who finds no cause of stumbling in me."
Matthew 13:57
This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."
Luke 24:46-47
and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;
John 6:53-66
"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Acts 7:32-35
"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "And Moses trembled and dared not gaze.
Acts 10:39-43
"And we were witnesses of all that he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him, hanging him on a tree.
Romans 9:32-33
And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
1 Corinthians 1:28
The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;
2 Corinthians 4:5
It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.
Galatians 6:14
God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;