John 16:1

Coming Testimony And Rejection

¹ I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter. ² They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

Fall Away

Stumbling Block

Jesus

John

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is the man who finds no hindrance in me."

Matthew 13:21

But, as he has no root, he stands for only a short time; and, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Message, he falls away at once.

Matthew 26:31-33

Then Jesus said to them: "Even you will all fall away from me to-night. Scripture says--'I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

John 15:18-27

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

John 16:4

But I have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

Philippians 1:10

Until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the Day of Christ,

1 Peter 2:8

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.

Matthew 13:57

These things proved a hindrance to their believing in him; whereupon Jesus said: "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house."

Matthew 24:10

And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

John 15:11

I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete.