Luke 7:23
Good News Translation
How happy are those who have no doubts about me!"

New Revised Standard Version
And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”

Contemporary English Version
God will bless everyone who doesn't reject me because of what I do."

New American Bible
And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

Isaiah 8:14,15 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. . . .

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

Matthew 13:57,58 And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. . . .

John 6:60-66 Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it? . . .

Romans 9:32,33 Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:21-28 For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe. . . .

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

1 Peter 2:7,8 To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: . . .

Context
John's Inquiry
22And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached. 23And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me. 24And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? A reed shaken with the wind?…
Cross References
Matthew 11:6
And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.

Luke 7:22
And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is preached.

Luke 7:24
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Luke 7:22
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