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It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.
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And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe [to him] by whom they come!
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It would be [more] profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones.
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Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.
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And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.
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And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.
Footnotes 2
[a].
Skandalon. It means the part of a fall-trap that makes the trap fall when touched: see Note, Matt. 13.57.