John 16:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ “These words I have spoken to you, so that you do not 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

Matthew 11:6

“And blessed is he who does not stumble in Me.”

Matthew 13:21

yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived, and when pressure or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Matthew 13:57

And they stumbled at Him. But יהושע  said to them, “A prophet is not unappreciated except in his own country and in his own house.”

Matthew 24:10

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

John 15:11

“These words I have spoken to you, so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete.

John 16:4

“But I have said these words to you, so that when the hour comes you remember that I told them to you. And these words I did not say to you at the beginning, for I was with you.

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine, nor to do whatever by which your brother stumbles.

Philippians 1:10

for you to examine the matters that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah,

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,” who stumble because they are disobedien to the Word, to which they also were appointed.