John 6:60

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

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

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

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.”

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.

Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

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

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

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

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.’

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

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.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

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

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.