“I have spoken these things to you so that you will not fall away.
and, “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble, because they are disobedient to the word, to which also they were appointed.
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, eventually he falls away.
I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you.
Then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another.
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine, nor do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
Blessed is he who does not fall away because of Me.”
I have spoken these things to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
that you may approve things that are excellent so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,