Being Offended

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. — read the full passage →

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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.’

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

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

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.” — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. — read the full passage →

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. — read the full passage →

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” — read the full passage →

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. — read the full passage →

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →