Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
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