Luke 17:1
Jesus said to his disciples, “Temptations are unavoidable, but it will be a disaster for those through whom they come!
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Matthew 18:7What a disaster is coming on the world for all its temptations to sin! Temptations will surely come, but it will be a disaster for the person through whom the temptation comes!
Romans 14:20Don't destroy the work of God with arguments over food. Everything is clean—but it would be wrong to eat and offend others.
1 Corinthians 8:13So if eating food sacrificed to idols would cause my fellow believer to stumble, I will never eat such meat ever again, so that I don't offend any believer.
1 Corinthians 11:19Of course such splits among you must happen so those who are genuine can prove themselves by their evidence!
Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak how to entrap the children of Israel by means of eating food sacrificed to idols and committing sexual sins.
Revelation 13:14He deceived those who live on the earth by the miracles he performed on behalf of the beast, ordering the people that they should make an image for the beast who had received the fatal sword wound but came back to life.
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:1
In this chapter we have, I. Some particular discourses which Christ had with his disciples, in which he teaches them to take heed of giving offence, and to forgive the injuries done them ( ver. 1-4 ), encourages them to pray for the increase of their faith ( ver. 5, 6 ), and then teaches them humility, whatever service they had done for God, ver. 7-10 . II. His cleansing ten lepers, and the thanks he had from one of them only, and he a Samaritan, ver. 11-19 . III. His discourse with his disciples, upon occasion of… Read the whole commentary →