Luke 17:1
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
ἀδύνατος
adýnatos
unable, i.e. weak (literally or figuratively); passively, impossible
σκάνδαλον
skándalon
a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Key Terms in This Verse
σκάνδαλον skándalon
a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin)
Study G4625 →ἀδύνατος adýnatos
unable, i.e. weak (literally or figuratively); passively, impossible
Study G102 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →Cross References
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
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.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u...
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th...
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