“I have spoken these things to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.
and “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they are disobeying the word—to this they were also appointed.
Yet he has no root himself but lasts only a short while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
But I have spoken these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.”
And then many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one other.
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles.
And they took offense at Him. But Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”
Blessed is the one who is not led to stumble because of Me.”
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.
in order to approve what is excellent—so that in the Day of Messiah you may be sincere and blameless,