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!
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,
Galatians 4:29
but just as in old times the son born by the flesh used to persecute the son born by the power of the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 6:12
Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Acts 16:3
Now Paul, wishing that this man should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him because of the local Jews, who all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 21:21
"Now what they have been told about you, again and again, is that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.
Acts 21:28
"Men of Israel, help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the people, and the Law, and this place. And he has actually brought Gentiles even into the temple, and has desecrated the holy place."
Acts 22:21-22
"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 23:13-14
And there were more than forty who had sworn this oath.
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 1:18
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.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.
Galatians 2:3
But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.
Galatians 6:17
From this time forth let no one trouble me, for I bear branded in my body the marks of Jesus, my Master.
1 Peter 2:8-9
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.