John 16:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ “I have said these things to you to keep you from falling away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ I HAVE told you all these things, so that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away). [I told you to keep you from being scandalized and repelled.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.

Common English Bible

¹ I have said these things to you so that you won’t fall away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "These things I have spoken to you, so that you would not stumble.

John 16:1 Cross References

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone that makes them stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Matthew 13:21

yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

John 16:4

But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Matthew 24:10

Then many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Romans 14:21

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

Matthew 13:57

And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor except in their own hometown and in their own house.”

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”

John 15:11

I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,