Luke 17:1
Good News Translation
Jesus said to his disciples, "Things that make people fall into sin are bound to happen, but how terrible for the one who makes them happen!

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to his disciples, “Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to anyone by whom they come!

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to his disciples: There will always be something that causes people to sin. But anyone who causes them to sin is in for trouble. A person who causes even one of my little followers to sin

New American Bible
He said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come!

It is.

Matthew 16:23 Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Romans 14:13,20,21 Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way. . . .

Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 8:13 Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

1 Corinthians 10:32 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: . . .

Revelation 2:14,20 But I have against thee a few things: 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 and to commit fornication. . . .

Revelation 13:14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.

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Context
Temptations and Trespasses
1And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! 2It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.…
Cross References
Matthew 18:7
Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Luke 16:31
And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

1 Corinthians 11:19
For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,

Luke 16:31
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