Matthew 17:27

Free Bible Version

But to avoid giving offense to anyone, go to the lake, and throw out a fishing line with a hook. Pull in the first fish you catch, and when you open its mouth there you'll find a stater coin. Take the coin and give it to them for both me and you.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and told them, “Reproduce, increase, and spread throughout the earth and control it; exercise authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the earth.”

1 Kings 17:4

You can drink from the brook, and I have ordered ravens to bring you food you there.”

Psalm 8:8

the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea—everything that swims in the ocean.

Jonah 1:17

The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah. Jonah spent three days and nights in the belly of the fish.

Jonah 2:10

Then the Lord told the fish to spit out Jonah onto the shore.

Matthew 17:26

“From others,” Peter replied. So Jesus told him, “In that case the sons are exempt.

Matthew 18:6

But anyone who makes one of these little ones who trust in me sin, it would be better for them to have a large millstone tied around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:8

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It's better for you to enter eternal life crippled or lame rather than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into eternal fire.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye leads you to sin, then tear it out and throw it away, because it's better to lose one part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into the fire of Gehenna.

Matthew 5:30

If your right hand leads you to sin, then cut it off and throw it away, for it's better for you to lose one of your limbs than for your whole body to go into the fire of Gehenna.

Mark 9:42

But if anyone leads one of these little ones who trust in me into sin, it would be better for them if they were thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around their neck.

Mark 9:43

If your hand leads you to sin, cut it off! It's better to enter eternal life as a cripple than to go with both hands into Gehenna, into the fire that can't be put out.

Luke 17:2

For such people it would be better to have a millstone hung around the neck and be thrown into the sea than to cause these little ones to sin.

John 6:61

Jesus saw that his disciples were complaining about this, so he asked them, “Are you offended by this?

Romans 14:21

It's better not to eat meat or drink wine or anything else that would cause your fellow-believer to stumble.

1 Corinthians 8:13

So if eating food sacrificed to idols would cause my fellow believer to stumble, I will never eat such meat ever again, so that I don't offend any believer.

1 Corinthians 8:9

Just take care not to use this freedom you have to eat food sacrificed to idols to become offensive to those with a weaker attitude.

2 Corinthians 6:3

We don't put anything in anyone's way that would trip them up, making sure the work we do won't be criticized.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Even though he was rich, he became poor for you, so that through his poverty you could become rich.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

keep away from every kind of evil.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear friends: Didn't God choose those who the world considers poor to be rich in their trust in him, and to inherit the kingdom he promised to those who love him?