but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he can
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appo
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of J
Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cr
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of
Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of man
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucifi
Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you ha
For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet withou
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable r
He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death b
‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.