Bible Cross References
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Luke 2:34
Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, "This child is chosen by God for the destruction and the salvation of many in Israel. He will be a sign from God which many people will speak against
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.
Isaiah 8:15
Many will stumble; they will fall and be crushed. They will be caught in a trap."
Matthew 11:6
How happy are those who have no doubts about me!"
Matthew 13:57
And so they rejected him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is respected everywhere except in his hometown and by his own family."
Matthew 13:58
Because they did not have faith, he did not perform many miracles there.
John 6:60-66
60
Many of his followers heard this and said, "This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?"
61
Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, "Does this make you want to give up?
62
Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?
63
What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit.
64
Yet some of you do not believe." (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.)
65
And he added, "This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so."
66
Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.
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 1:21-28
21
For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
22
Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.
23
As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;
24
but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25
For what seems to be God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what seems to be God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
26
Now remember what you were, my friends, when God called you. From the human point of view few of you were wise or powerful or of high social standing.
27
God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.
28
He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.
1 Peter 2:7
This stone is of great value for you that believe; but for those who do not believe: "The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all."
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.