Matthew 16:23

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.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

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.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

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.

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.

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

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

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

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

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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.

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.” ’

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

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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 there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

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.”

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

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

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

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.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

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.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

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.

But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

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

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

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.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

“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!