Luke 17:1
And Jesus said to his disciples: It cannot be, but that offences will come: but woe to him, by whom they come.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 18:7Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it must be, that stumbling blocks come. But, woe to the person by whose means the stumbling blocks come.
Romans 14:20And let us not, on account of food, destroy the work of God. For every thing is, indeed, pure; yet it is evil, to the man who eateth with stumbling.
1 Corinthians 8:13Wherefore, if food is a stumbling-block to my brother, I will for ever eat no flesh, lest I should be a stumbling-block to my brother.
1 Corinthians 11:19For there are to be contentions among you, that the approved among you may be known.
Revelation 2:14Yet I have a small charge against thee. Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, that they might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might commit whoredom.
Revelation 13:14And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, to erect an image to the beast of prey who had the wound from a sword and recovered.
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 →