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路加福音 17:1

饒恕、信心、服事等教訓(太18:6~7、21~22;可9:42)耶穌又對門徒說:“使人犯罪的事是免不了的,但那使人犯罪的人有禍了!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Offense;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Stumbling block;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heresy;   Luke, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Offense;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Offence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Elect, Election ;   Fierceness;   Hindrance;   Impossibility;   Love (2);   Manuscripts;   Woe;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stumbling Block,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forgiveness;   Impossible;   Keys, Power of;   Offence;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for May 7;   Every Day Light - Devotion for April 29;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 又 对 门 徒 说 : 绊 倒 人 的 事 是 免 不 了 的 ; 但 那 绊 倒 人 的 有 祸 了 。

Contextual Overview

1 Jesus said to his followers, "Things that cause people to sin will happen, but how terrible for the person who causes them to happen! 2 It would be better for you to be thrown into the sea with a large stone around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 So be careful! "If another follower sins, warn him, and if he is sorry and stops sinning, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in one day and says that he is sorry each time, forgive him." 5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!" 6 The Lord said, "If your faith were the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Dig yourself up and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would obey you. 7 "Suppose one of you has a servant who has been plowing the ground or caring for the sheep. When the servant comes in from working in the field, would you say, ‘Come in and sit down to eat'? 8 No, you would say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Then get yourself ready and serve me. After I finish eating and drinking, you can eat.' 9 The servant does not get any special thanks for doing what his master commanded. 10 It is the same with you. When you have done everything you are told to do, you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done the work we should do.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

It is: Matthew 16:23, Matthew 18:7, Romans 14:13, Romans 14:20, Romans 14:21, Romans 16:17, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 10:32, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:20, Revelation 13:14-18

Reciprocal: Matthew 18:5 - receive Matthew 18:6 - offend Mark 9:42 - offend 1 Corinthians 8:9 - take 1 Timothy 6:1 - that the 1 John 2:10 - occasion of stumbling

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.
Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 16:16
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? No! I will return to you at the right time a year from now, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children, and may you become a group of many peoples.
Genesis 35:11
God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors Abraham and Isaac served our God, and like a shepherd God has led me all my life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said he unto his disciples,.... In the Alexandrian copy, and in "three" of Beza's exemplars it is read, "his disciples"; and so read the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; that is, Jesus said to his disciples what follows, as the Syriac and Persic versions express, and the latter reads, he said "again". About the time that he delivered the above parable concerning the rich man and Lazarus, he repeated to his disciples what he had before said to them on another occasion, Matthew 18:7

it is impossible but that offences will come; considering the decree of God, the malice of Satan, the wickedness of men, the corruption both of their principles and practices. The Ethiopic version renders it, "temptation will come"; that which will be trying to the faith of the saints, and a stumblingblock to weak minds, as reproach and persecution, errors, and heresies, and the evil lives of professors:

but woe [unto him] through whom they come;

Matthew 18:7- :

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is impossible - It cannot but happen. Such is the state of things that “it will be.” See these verses explained in the notes at Matthew 18:6-7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII.

Christ teaches the necessity of avoiding offences, 1, 2.

How to treat an offending brother, 3, 4.

The efficacy of faith, 5, 6.

No man by his services or obedience can profit his Maker, 7-10.

He cleanses ten lepers, 11-19.

The Pharisees inquire when the kingdom of God shall commence;

Christ answers them, and corrects their improper views of the

subject, 20-37.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII.

Verse Luke 17:1. It is impossible but that offences will come — Such is the corrupt state of the human heart that, notwithstanding all the influences of grace, and the promises of glory, men will continue to sin against God; and his justice must continue to punish. Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:6.


 
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