John 16:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“I have told you all this so that you won’t lose your faith when you face troubles.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:8

For them he is also “a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes people fall.” Isaiah 8:14 People stumble because they don’t obey what God says. This is what God planned to happen to those people.

Matthew 13:21

But they do not let the teaching go deep into their lives. They keep it only a short time. As soon as trouble or persecution comes because of the teaching they accepted, they give up.

John 16:4

I have told you all this now to prepare you. So when the time comes for these things to happen, you will remember that I warned you. “I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you then.

Matthew 24:10

During that time many believers will lose their faith. They will turn against each other and hate each other.

Romans 14:21

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that hurts the faith of your brother or sister.

Matthew 13:57

So they had a problem accepting him. But Jesus said to them, “People everywhere give honor to a prophet, but in his own town or in his own home a prophet does not get any honor.”

Matthew 11:6

Great blessings belong to those who don’t have a problem accepting me.”

John 15:11

I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy.

Philippians 1:10

that you will see the difference between what is important and what is not and choose what is important; that you will be pure and blameless for the coming of Christ;