1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
Luke 2:34
and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1 Peter 2:8
and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
Isaiah 8:14-15
He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?
Matthew 11:6
Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."
Matthew 13:57
They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
Luke 24:46-47
He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
John 6:53-66
Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
Acts 7:32-35
'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.
Acts 10:39-43
We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
Romans 9:32-33
Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
1 Corinthians 1:28
and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,