Matthew 11:6

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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.

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.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“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.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

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 Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

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

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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.”

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

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?

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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?

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.

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.

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

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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

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 the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

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?

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.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

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

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

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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.

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

“ ‘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.

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, 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.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

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

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

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

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

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.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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.’

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.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

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.

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

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

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

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

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

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

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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