Bible Cross References
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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 2:2
For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.
Luke 24:46
and said to them, "This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later,
Luke 24:47
and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Acts 7:32-35
32
'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and dared not look.
33
The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
34
I have seen the cruel suffering of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans, and I have come down to set them free. Come now; I will send you to Egypt.'
35
"Moses is the one who was rejected by the people of Israel. 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?' they asked. He is the one whom God sent to rule the people and set them free with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.
Acts 10:39-43
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We are witnesses of everything that he did in the land of Israel and in Jerusalem. Then they put him to death by nailing him to a cross.
40
But God raised him from death three days later and caused him to appear,
41
not to everyone, but only to the witnesses that God had already chosen, that is, to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from death.
42
And he commanded us to preach the gospel to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God has appointed judge of the living and the dead.
43
All the prophets spoke about him, saying that all who believe in him will have their sins forgiven through the power of his name."
2 Corinthians 4:5
For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Galatians 3:1
You foolish Galatians! Who put a spell on you? Before your very eyes you had a clear description of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross!
Galatians 6:14
As for me, however, I will boast only about the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; for by means of his cross the world is dead to me, and I am dead to the world.
Ephesians 3:8
I am less than the least of all God's people; yet God gave me this privilege of taking to the Gentiles the Good News about the infinite riches of Christ,
unto the Jews
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."
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
John 6:53-66
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Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.
54
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day.
55
For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink.
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Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.
57
The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.
58
This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."
59
Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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."
Galatians 5:11
But as for me, my friends, if I continue to preach that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were true, then my preaching about the cross of Christ would cause no trouble.
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.
foolishness
1 Corinthians 1:28
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.