Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish coming up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a coin; taking that, give it to them for Me and you."
Luke 17:2 - English Majority Text Version 2009 It would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were hurled into the sea than that he should cause to sin or be a snare to one of these little ones [lowly in rank or influence]. American Standard Version (1901) It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble. Common English Bible It would be better for them to be thrown into a lake with a large stone hung around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to trip and fall into sin. Catholic Public Domain Version It would be better for him if a millstone were placed around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than to lead astray one of these little ones. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones. |
Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish coming up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a coin; taking that, give it to them for Me and you."
"See that you do not despise one of these little [ones], for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
Thus it is not the will before your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Indeed, the Son of Man goes just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."
"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea.
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I care for You."He said to him, "Feed My lambs."
But I used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should become thus for me; for it is better for me rather to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.
to the weak I became as weak, in order that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.