Galatians 5:11
If I, Brothers, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!
1 Corinthians 1:23
We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,
Galatians 4:29
Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.
Galatians 6:12
Those who wish to appear to advantage in regard to outward observances are the very people who are trying to compel you to be circumcised; and they do it only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Jesus, the Christ.
Acts 16:3
Wishing to take this man with him on his journey, Paul caused him to be circumcised on account of the Jews in that neighborhood, for they all knew that his father had been a Greek.
Acts 21:21
Now they have heard it said about you, that you teach all Jews in foreign countries to forsake Moses, for you tell them not to circumcise their children or even to observe Jewish customs.
Acts 21:28
"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."
Acts 22:21-22
But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."
Acts 23:13-14
There were more than forty in the plot;
Romans 9:32-33
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'
1 Corinthians 1:18
The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why, too, do we risk our lives every hour?
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.
Galatians 2:3
Yet even my companion, Titus, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised.
Galatians 6:17
For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.
1 Peter 2:8-9
and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.