I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled.
a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.
he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.
I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;
And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.
the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.
So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."
And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"
I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.
so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,