Matthew 17:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Lest

And take

That take

2 Corinthians 8:9

James 2:5

General references

2 Corinthians 6:3

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Bible References

Lest

Then the disciples came [and] said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended [when they] heard this saying?"

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.

{Give no offense} both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],

Abstain from every form of evil.

concerning everything showing yourself [to be] an example of good deeds, in your teaching [demonstrating] soundness, dignity,

And take

And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth."

It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there."

[the] birds of [the] sky and the fish of the sea, [everything] that passes along the paths of seas.

And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land.

You made him for a short [time] lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor;

That take

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that [although he] was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

General references

[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],

Abstain from every form of evil.