Matthew 18:7 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁷ Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man through whom the offense comes!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Woe to the world for such temptations to sin and influences to do wrong! It is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the person on whose account or by whom the temptation comes!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

Common English Bible

⁷ How terrible it is for the world because of the things that cause people to trip and fall into sin! Such things have to happen, but how terrible it is for the person who causes those things to happen!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Woe to a world that leads people astray! Although it is necessary for temptations to arise, nevertheless: Woe to that man through whom temptation arises!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Matthew 18:7 Cross References

Matthew 16:23

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

Matthew 26:24

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."

Mark 13:7

But whenever you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be disturbed; for these things must occur, but the end is not yet.

Luke 17:1

Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible for offenses not to come, but woe [to the one] through whom they do come!

John 17:12

When I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. [Those] whom You have given to Me I guarded; and not one of them is lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Acts 1:16

"Men, brothers; it was necessary [for] this Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

1 Timothy 6:1

Let as many as are slaves under a yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.

Titus 2:5

temperate, pure, homemakers, good, submitting to their own husbands, lest the word of God be blasphemed.

Titus 2:8

sound speech that cannot be condemned, in order that the [one] who is an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.