John 16:1 Cross References - WNT

¹ "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.

⁶ and blessed is every one who does not stumble and fall because of my claims."

²¹ It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.

⁵⁷ So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them, "There is no prophet left without honour except in his own country and among his own family."

¹⁰ Then WILL MANY STUMBLE AND FALL, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

³¹ Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, 'I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK WILL BE SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS.' ³² But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee." ³³ "All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."

¹¹ "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you. ²⁰ Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹ But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me. ²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'THEY HAVE HATED ME WITHOUT ANY REASON.' ²⁶ "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me. ²⁷ And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

⁴ But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

²¹ The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

¹⁰ so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

⁸ and "A STONE FOR THE FOOT TO STRIKE AGAINST, AND A ROCK TO STUMBLE OVER." Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.