Bible Cross References
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Galatians 2:3
My companion Titus, even though he is Greek, was not forced to be circumcised,
Acts 16:3
Paul wanted to take Timothy along with him, so he circumcised him. He did so because all the Jews who lived in those places knew that Timothy's father was Greek.
why
Galatians 4:29
At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
Galatians 6:12
The people who are trying to force you to be circumcised are the ones who want to show off and boast about external matters. They do it, however, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:17
To conclude: let no one give me any more trouble, because the scars I have on my body show that I am the slave of Jesus.
Acts 21:21
They have been told that you have been teaching all the Jews who live in Gentile countries to abandon the Law of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or follow the Jewish customs.
Acts 21:28
"People of Israel!" they shouted. "Help! This is the man who goes everywhere teaching everyone against the people of Israel, the Law of Moses, and this Temple. And now he has even brought some Gentiles into the Temple and defiled this holy place!"
Acts 22:21
'Go,' the Lord said to me, 'for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.' "
Acts 22:22
The people listened to Paul until he said this; but then they started shouting at the top of their voices, "Away with him! Kill him! He's not fit to live!"
Acts 23:13
There were more than forty who planned this together.
Acts 23:14
Then they went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn vow together not to eat a thing until we have killed Paul.
1 Corinthians 15:30
And as for us---why would we run the risk of danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
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Are they Christ's servants? I sound like a madman---but I am a better servant than they are! I have worked much harder, I have been in prison more times, I have been whipped much more, and I have been near death more often.
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Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews;
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three times I was whipped by the Romans; and once I was stoned. I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water.
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In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from my own people and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends.
the offence
Isaiah 8:14
Because of my awesome holiness I am like a stone that people stumble over; I am like a trap that will catch the people of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel and the people of Jerusalem.
Romans 9:32
And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the "stumbling stone"
Romans 9:33
that the scripture speaks of: "Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.
1 Corinthians 1:23
As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;
1 Peter 2:8
And another scripture says, "This is the stone that will make people stumble, the rock that will make them fall." They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's will for them.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.