Luke 7:23

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Luke 7:23

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

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And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;