John 16:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Matthew 13:21

yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.

John 16:4

But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Matthew 24:10

And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

Matthew 13:57

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he, whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in me.

John 15:11

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be fulfilled.

Philippians 1:10

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;