John 16:1

Coming Testimony And Rejection

¹ "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path. ² You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

Fall Away

Stumbling Block

Jesus

John

Matthew 11:6

and blessed is every one who does not stumble and fall because of my claims."

Matthew 13:21

It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.

Matthew 26:31-33

Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, 'I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.'

John 15:18-27

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

John 16:4

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

1 Peter 2:8

and "a Stone for the foot to strike against, and a Rock to stumble over." Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.

Matthew 13:57

So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them, "There is no prophet left without honour except in his own country and among his own family."

Matthew 24:10

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

John 15:11

"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.