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"Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks. For there will always be something to cause people to stumble, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes.

Verse ConceptsNecessityWoeDenunciationsCausing Others To StumbleSure KnowledgeWoe To The WickedTemptationOvercoming AdversityOvercoming Obstacles

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingTrapping Oneself

Do not overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Verse ConceptsStumblingCausing Others To StumbleClean ObjectsWorking For GodEating MeatGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodpork

But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionOffenceNecessity Of CircumcisionSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionPersecution

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFoodAdultery, SpiritualChastityToleranceAbuse, Of Christian FreedomFalse Teachers, Examples OfStumbling BlocksMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed ImmoralitysexSexual Immorality

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Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Verse ConceptsProphecies Concerning ChristTrusting In WorksSaved By FaithWorks Of The LawConversion Of Israel

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

Verse ConceptsLibertinismPredestined PlansStumblingAbuse, Of Christian FreedomProphecies Concerning ChristStumbling Over ChristPeople StumblingChrist The RockRoyal Priesthood

He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersNecessityTemptation, Avoiding CausingTemptation, Universality OfChrist Speaking To DisciplesWoe To The WickedTemptationimpossible

"I have said all these things to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

Verse ConceptsNot StumblingLack Of ExpectationAvoid Being Hindered

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock that will make them fall; and no one who believes in him will be put to shame."

Verse ConceptsdefeatNot AshamedZion, As A SymbolCornerstoneCapstoneSaving FaithChrist The RockThe Effects Of FaithNot DisappointedDisappointment

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Verse ConceptsBlamelessness, In Christian LivingOffenceDo Not HinderMinistrynegativity

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

Verse ConceptsLawlessnessGathered By GodCausing Others To StumbleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesChrist SendingGod Judges The WickedWeedMarijuana

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Verse ConceptsBeing A Perfect ChristianAssurance Of SalvationFaultlessnessAble To StandBackslidingvulnerability

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceGiving, Of OneselfSelf DisciplineSelf DenialThe Saints, Without OffenceBrotherly LoveAdaptabilityDo Not HinderEating Meatpork

But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."

Verse ConceptsComplacencyPeople StumblingNot StumblingCaused By Goddenial

And they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, In Christian LivingShallownessFor The Sake Of ThingsPersecutionpressure

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

Verse ConceptsCripplesPunishment, By GodSelf DenialGehennaEntering LifeCausing Others To StumbleNot Maintaining LifeFire Of HellCutting Off Hands And FeetTwo Of Body PartsMissing The Markcutting

45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into hell.

Verse ConceptsMaggotsworms

47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell,

Verse Conceptsworms

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Verse ConceptsInexperienceMillstonesTemptation, Avoiding CausingThrowing PeopleCausing Others To StumbleSinkingBeing Killed By A RockDealing With Young PeopleIn The Heart Of The SeaChild AbuseHurt And Betrayaljumping

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

Verse ConceptsAwarenessGrumblingChrist Knowing About PeopleThe Disciples WordsComplainingcriticism

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight ? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UseUsing The DayThe Number TwelveHourNot StumblingLiving In The LightLight

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Verse ConceptsWalking In DarknessSpiritual NightPeople StumblingSpiritual Darkness

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Verse ConceptsOutsidersDownfall Of IsraelMaking Israel JealousThe Gospel Of SalvationConversion Of IsraelGentiles

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

Verse ConceptsSympathyAdaptabilityWeakness

And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsBlindness, SymbolicHell, Punishment OfSelf DenialSelf DisciplinePriorityEyes, GuardedProfitable ThingsPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEyes HarmedOther Right PartsThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsAbusive RelationshipsHellEyesInfidelityLust Of The Eyes

And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsSending Things AwayCausing Others To StumbleCutting Off Hands And FeetEvil For The Right HandThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsWorry And StressInfidelityLosing Someonecutting

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeethics, socialCivic DutiesLoyaltyMiracles Of ChristCitizens, Christian DutiesCoinsDivine Power Over NatureCitizenshipDo Not HinderFishtaxes

If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life crippled or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

Verse ConceptsCripplesEternal DeathFeetInjury To FeetEternal JudgementThrowing PeopleCausing Others To StumbleEntering LifeFire Of HellCutting Off Hands And FeetTwo Of Body PartsAvoid Being HinderedHellLake Of Fire

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the fire of hell.

Verse ConceptsBlindness, SymbolicPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEntering LifeFire Of HellEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsAvoid Being HinderedHellEyes

Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Verse ConceptsSheepUnfaithfulness, To PeopleInadequate ShepherdingProphecies Concerning ChristThe Smiting Of JesusScattered Like SheepGod Beating PeoplePeople StumblingDuring One NightChrist Would Be KilledHurt And Betrayal