Luke 17:1 - Plain English Version

¹ Jesus said to his followers, “You know, there will always be somebody that will try to make you go wrong and do bad things, but God will punish the person that does that.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND [Jesus] said to His disciples, Temptations (snares, traps set to entice to sin) are sure to come, but woe to him by or through whom they come!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Common English Bible

¹ Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause people to trip and fall into sin must happen, but how terrible it is for the person through whom they happen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And he said to his disciples: "It is impossible for scandals not to occur. But woe to him through whom they come!

Luke 17:1 Cross References

Luke 16:31

But Abraham said, ‘Look, if they take no notice of Moses, and if they take no notice of the things that God’s men wrote in his book, they will not take any notice of anyone, not even a dead person that comes alive again.’ ”

Romans 14:13

So we have to stop being like judges. We have to stop telling each other, “You are wrong.” Instead of that, we have to make sure that we help other Christians, and make sure we don’t do anything that makes them go wrong.

Romans 16:17

Listen, my Christian friends, I’m telling you straight, you’ve got to be really careful about people that make you split up and argue with each other. Remember that you heard the true message about Jesus Christ, and you learned to follow his way, but there are some people that want you to leave that way and go another way. They tell you a different story, and they get you to argue with each other. So don’t listen to them. Keep away from them.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Don’t do anything that might give other people problems. Don’t make problems for Jewish people, or for people that are not Jewish. And don’t make problems for God’s people.

1 Corinthians 11:19

Look, I know some of you will split up into groups, but when you do, you have to let God show you who is right.

1 Corinthians 8:13

So, you see, this is what I think. I reckon every other Christian is like a brother or a sister to me, so I will not eat anything that gets them to go wrong. If something that I want to eat might get another Christian to do something wrong, I will not eat it. Never.

1 Timothy 4:1

The Holy Spirit tells us clearly about things that will happen in the last days of this world. He says that some people will stop believing the true word from God. Instead, they will believe lies that come from bad spirits. Those bad spirits will trick them, and they will believe those lies.