John 16:1

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

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

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

They all left him, and fled.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

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.’

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

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

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

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

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

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

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 will be scattered.’

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

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.”

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.