Luke 17:1
Jesus said to his disciples, “It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!
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Matthew 18:7Alas for the world because of such temptations! There cannot but be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!
Romans 14:20Do not undo God’s work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is ‘clean,’ yet, if a person eats so as to put a stumbling-block in the way of others, they do wrong.
1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore, if what I eat makes a follower of the Lord fall, rather than make them fall, I will never eat meat again.
1 Corinthians 11:19indeed, there must be parties among you, so that the people of real worth become known.
Revelation 2:14Yet I have a few things against you – You have among you those who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.
Revelation 13:14and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It tells those who live on the earth to make a statue in honor of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived.
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 →