Verse 23

and blessed is he, that is not offended at me.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:14-15 : 14 For he is the sanctifienge, and stone to stomble at, ye rock to fall vpon, a snare and net to both the houses: to Israel, and the inhabitours of Ierusalem. 15 And many shal stomble, fall, and be broke vpon him: yee they shalbe snared and taken.
• Matt 11:6 : 6 and blessed is he, that is not offended at me.
• Matt 13:57-58 : 57 And they were offended at him. But Iesus sayde vnto the: A prophet is nowhere lesse sett by, the at home & amonge his owne. 58 And he dyd not many miracles there, because of their vnbeleue.
• Luke 2:34 : 34 And Symeon blessed them, and sayde vnto Mary his mother: Beholde, this (childe) shalbe set to a fall, and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel, and for a token, which shalbe spoke agaynst.
• John 6:60-66 : 60 Many now of his disciples that herde this, sayde: This is an harde sayenge, who maye abyde the hearynge of it? 61 But whan Iesus perceaued in hi self, that his discipes murmured ther at he sayde vnto them: Doth this offende you? 62 What and yf ye shal se the sonne of man ascende vp thither, where he was afore? 63 It is ye sprete that quyckeneth, ye flesh profiteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake, are sprete, and are life. 64 But there are some amoge you, that beleue not. For Iesus knewe well from the begynnynge, which they were that beleued not, and who shulde betraye him. 65 And he sayde: Therfore haue I sayde vnto you: No man can come vnto me, excepte it be geuen him of my father. 66 From that tyme forth, many of his disciples wente backe, and walked nomore with him.
• Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why so? Euen because they soughte it not out of faith, but as it were out of the deseruynge of workes. For they haue stombled at the stomblinge stone. 33 As it is wrytten: Beholde, I laye in Sion a stone to stoble at, and a rocke to be offended at: and who so euer beleueth on him, shal not be confounded.
• 1 Cor 1:21-28 : 21 Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue. 22 For the Iewes requyre tokens, and the Grekes axe after wyssdome. 23 But we preach Christ the crucified: to the Iewes an occasion off fallinge, and vnto the Grekes foolishnes. 24 But vnto them that are called (both Iewes and Grekes) we preach Christ the power of God and the wyssdome off God. 25 For the foolishnes of God is wyser then men: and the weaknes of God is stroger the men. 26 Brethren loke on youre callinge, how that not many wyseme after the flesh, not many mightie, not many of hye degre are called: 27 but that foolish is before the worlde, hath God chosen, that he mighte cofounde the wyse: And that weake is before ye worlde, hath God chosen, yt he mighte confounde the mightye. 28 And the vyle and despysed before the worlde hath God chosen, yee and that which is nothinge, that he mighte destroye that which is oughte,
• 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned.
• 1 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 Vnto you therfore which beleue, he is precious: but vnto them that beleue not, is ye same stone which the buylders refused, made the heade stone in the corner, 8 and a stone to stomble at, and a rock to be offended at, namely in the which stomble at ye worde, and beleue not that wheron they were set.