Matthew 18:10 Cross References - Williams

¹⁰ "Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven.

²⁰ But just as this thought occurred to him, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for it is through the influence of the Holy Spirit that she has become an expectant mother.

¹³ After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Wake up! Tenderly take the child and His mother, and escape to Egypt; stay there until I further direct you, for Herod is going to search for the child to destroy Him."

¹⁹ But after Herod died, an angel of the Lord in a dream appeared to Joseph in Egypt,

²⁰ A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

⁶ But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

¹⁴ Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that a single one of these little ones be lost.

³¹ And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His chosen people from the four points of the compass, from one end of the sky to the other.

¹⁹ The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel; I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to talk with you and to tell you this good news.

¹⁶ Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever pays no attention to you pays no attention to me, and whoever pays no attention to me pays no attention to Him who sent me."

²² One day the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to be Abraham's bosom companion, and the rich man too died and was buried.

¹⁹ But in the night the angel of the Lord threw open the jail doors and let them out, and said to them,

³ One afternoon about three o'clock he had a vision and clearly saw an angel of God come to him and say, "Cornelius!"

⁷ And suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in his cell, and by striking Peter on the side the angel woke him, and said, "Get up quickly!" At once the chains fell off his hands. ⁸ Then the angel said to him, "Tighten your belt and put on your shoes? He did so. Then the angel said to him, "Put on your coat and follow me!" ⁹ So he kept following him out, but he was not conscious that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was dreaming it. ¹⁰ They passed the first guard, then the second, and at last came to the iron gate which led into the city. The gate of itself opened to them, and they passed out and proceeded one block when all at once the angel left him. ¹¹ Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me."

¹⁵ They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she persistently insisted that it was so. Then they said, "It is his guardian angel!"

²³ But the angel of the Lord at once struck him down, because he did not give the glory to God; he was eaten by worms, and so died.

²³ For just last night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by my side

¹ Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views. ² One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables. ³ The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

¹⁰ Then why should you criticize your brother? Or, why should you look down on your brother? Surely, we shall all stand before God to be judged,

¹³ Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know, and through my union with the Lord Jesus I have a clear conviction, that nothing is unclean in itself; that a thing is unclean only to the person who thinks it unclean. ¹⁵ For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

²¹ The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

¹ It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

⁸ Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do. ⁹ But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people. ¹⁰ For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol? ¹¹ Yes, the overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by your so-called knowledge. ¹² Now if in such a way you sin against your brothers and wound their overscrupulous consciences, you are actually sinning against Christ. ¹³ So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

²² To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.

²² It is not that you have no houses to eat and drink in, is it? Or, are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God and trying to humiliate those who have no houses? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? No, I cannot praise you for this.

¹¹ So no one must slight him at all. But send him on with your goodbye, that he may come back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

¹ Now I appeal to you in person, by the gentleness and fairness of Christ, I, Paul, who am so "condescending when face to face with you, but so courageous toward you when far away!"

¹⁰ For they say, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his physical personality is unimpressive, and his delivery is perfectly contemptible."

¹³ And yet you know that it was because of an illness of mine that I preached the good news to you the first time, ¹⁴ but still you did not scorn the test my illness made of you, nor did you spurn me for it; on the contrary, you welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

¹ Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

⁸ So whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God who continues to put His Spirit in you.

¹² Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

¹⁴ Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation?

² Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.