Galatians 5:11
I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!
1 Corinthians 1:23
but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,
Galatians 4:29
but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.
Galatians 6:12
These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Acts 16:3
so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.
Acts 21:21
Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.
Acts 21:28
shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"
Acts 22:21-22
But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"
Acts 23:13-14
There were more than forty of them in this plot.
Romans 9:32-33
And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.
1 Corinthians 1:18
Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;
Galatians 2:3
But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.
Galatians 6:17
Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.
1 Peter 2:8-9
a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.