Devine Scripture

Matthew 16:23

Matthew chapter 16 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.

Context

v.22And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.

v.23This passage

v.24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 3:17

    And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

  • Matthew 18:7

    Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

  • Romans 14:13

    Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

  • Zechariah 3:1

    And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

  • Romans 8:5

    For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

  • Colossians 3:2

    Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.