Matthew 18:6 Cross References - CLV

⁶ Yet whoever should be snaring one of these little ones who is believing in Me, it is expedient for him that a millstone requiring an ass to turn it may be hanged about his neck, and he should be sunk in the open ocean."

¹⁵ Saying, You must not touch My anointed ones, And to My prophets you must not do evil!"

⁸ For thus says Yahweh of hosts:After the glory He sends me to the nations, your looters; for he who is touching you is touching the apple of My eye."

⁷ O sword! rouse against My Shepherd, and against the Master, My Companion, (averring is Yahweh of hosts). Smite the Shepherd, and the flock is scattering. And I restore My hand on the inferior shepherds."

¹⁰ See that you should not be despising one of these little ones, for I am saying to you that their messengers in the heavens are continually observing the face of My Father Who is in the heavens."

¹⁴ Thus it is not the will in front of your Father Who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should be perishing.

⁴² And whosoever should be snaring one of these little ones who are believing in Me, ideal is it for him rather if a millstone requiring an ass to turn it were lying about his neck and he were cast into the sea."

¹ Now He said to His disciples, "Incredible is it for snares not to be coming. Moreover, woe to him through whom they are coming!" ² An advantage were it to him if a millstone were lying about his neck and he were pitched into the sea, rather than that he should be snaring one of these little ones."

⁵ Yet he said, "Who art Thou, Lord?Yet He said, "I am Jesus Whom you are persecuting."

¹³ By no means, then, should we still be judging one another, but rather decide this, not to place a stumbling block for a brother, or a snare." ¹⁴ I have perceived and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is contaminating of itself, except that the one reckoning anything to be contaminating, to that one it is contaminating." ¹⁵ For if, because of food, your brother is sorrowing, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, by your food, destroy that one for whose sake Christ died."

²¹ It is ideal not to be eating meat, nor yet to be drinking wine, nor yet to do aught by which your brother is stumbling, or is being snared or weakened."

¹ Now we, the able, ought to be bearing the infirmities of the impotent, and not to be pleasing ourselves." ² Let each of us please his associate, for his good, toward his edification." ³ For Christ also pleases not Himself, but according as it is written, "The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fall on Me."

⁹ Now beware lest somehow this right of yours may become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone should be seeing you, who has knowledge, lying down in an idol's shrine, will not the conscience of him who is weak be inured to the eating of the idol sacrifices? ¹¹ For the weak one is perishing also by your knowledge; the brother because of whom Christ died. ¹² Now in thus sinning against brethren, and beating their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ." ¹³ Wherefore, if food is snaring my brother, I may under no circumstances be eating meat for the eon, lest I should be snaring my brother."

³² And become not a stumbling block to Jews as well as to Greeks and to the ecclesia of God, ³³ according as I also am pleasing all in all things, not seeking my own expedience, but that of the many, that they may be saved."

⁶ if so be that it is just of God to repay affliction to those afflicting you, ⁷ and to you who are being afflicted, ease, with us, at the unveiling of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful messengers, ⁸ in flaming fire, dealing out vengeance to those who are not acquainted with God and those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ" ⁹ who shall incur the justice of eonian extermination from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His strength"