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Mat 18:6 — But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

offend		Psa 105:15; Zec 2:8; Mar 9:42; Luk 17:1,2; Act 9:5; Rom 14:13-15,21; Rom 15:1-3; 1Cr 8:9-13; 1Cr 10:32,33; 2Th 1:6-9
little		Mat 18:10,14; Zec 13:7; Luk 17:2
that a		This mode of punishment appears to have obtained in Syria as well as in Greece, especially in cases of parricide. That it was customary in Greece we learn from Suidas, in [hyperbolon lithon] and the scholiast on the Equites of Aristophanes: [Hotan gar

Correlating Passages

offend

	Psa 105:15	[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
	Zec 2:8	For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
	Mar 9:42	And whosoever shall offend one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
	Luk 17:1	Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto him], through whom they come!
	Luk 17:2	It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
	Act 9:5	And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
	Rom 14:13	Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.
	Rom 14:14	I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
	Rom 14:15	But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
	Rom 14:21	[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
	Rom 15:1	We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
	Rom 15:2	Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification.
	Rom 15:3	For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
	1Cr 8:9	But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
	1Cr 8:10	For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
	1Cr 8:11	And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
	1Cr 8:12	But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
	1Cr 8:13	Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
	1Cr 10:32	Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
	1Cr 10:33	Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.
	2Th 1:6	Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
	2Th 1:7	And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
	2Th 1:8	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
	2Th 1:9	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

little

	Mat 18:10	Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
	Mat 18:14	Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
	Zec 13:7	Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
	Luk 17:2	It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 18:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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