Matthew 18:6
Greek Text— Matthew 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
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Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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.’
Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
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 found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
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.”
They all left him, and fled.
The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
I and the Father are one.”
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to 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.
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
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.
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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.
How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”
Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
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.
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
“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.
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.