Luke 7:23

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

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

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.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

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

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

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

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.”

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

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.’

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

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

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

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

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling 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.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

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.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.