John 16:1
Good News Translation
"I have told you this, so that you will not give up your faith.

New Revised Standard Version
“I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling.

Contemporary English Version
I am telling you these things, so that you will not turn away.

New American Bible
“I have told you this so that you may not fall away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized.

John 16:4 But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.

Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.

Matthew 13:21,57 Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized. . . .

Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.

Matthew 26:31-33 Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd: and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed. . . .

Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

Philippians 1:10 That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ:

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

Context
Persecution Foretold
1These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized. 2They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:6
And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.

John 15:18
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

John 15:27
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