Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
Why
The offence
General references
Bible References
If
Galatians 2:3
But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
Acts 16:3
Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Why
Galatians 4:29
But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Acts 21:21
They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
Acts 22:21
"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 23:13
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
The offence
Isaiah 8:14
He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Romans 9:32
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 1:18
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.
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.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:30
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Galatians 2:18
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.