Bible Cross References
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against
Isaiah 8:14
And He shall be a sanctuary for you; but a stone of stumbling, and a rock of falling to both the houses of Israel; and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 8:15
And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Matthew 11:6
And blessed is he who does not stumble because of Me.
Matthew 13:57
So they were offended in Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.
Matthew 13:58
And He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
John 6:60-66
60
Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who is able to hear it?
61
When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured about this, He said to them, Does this offend you?
62
What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh does not profit; not a thing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
64
But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who were not believing, and who would betray Him.
65
And He said, Therefore I have said to you that no one is able to come to Me unless it has been granted to him from My Father.
66
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.
Romans 9:33
As it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.
1 Corinthians 1:21-28
21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.
22
For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom;
23
but we preach Christ crucified, truly to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26
For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many of nobility.
27
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;
28
and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Peter 2:7
Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, The stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of the corner,
1 Peter 2:8
and a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.