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Matt.18:7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Do you understand whom the world is Christ speaks to here? Well, if your thinking worldly conduct the lust of the flesh and the showy display of ones means of life you might be wrong! Christ specifically was sent to none other but the Jewish faith, he was talking to those with thousand's of years of religious education to where it permeated into every fiber of Jewish society and their thoughts. The world were those highly religiously educated in faith, not some pang person lusting for food, drink, and sexual gratification!

John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 16:28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Matthew 15:24 But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

Now taking that contexts of Christ words it makes one wonder what was the stumbling if the law was good and righteous from God Himself, how could such righteousness stumble others? Just below in this same letter of Matthew of the same thought Christ goes on to speak of that stumbling where ones would have their great debt of sin forgiven by the rich Master YHWH the King, turn and chock the debt by the law in unforgiveness of their brothers and sisters, casting their names as wicked into everlasting prison jailed by sin and death under the condemnation of the old law.

Matthew 18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Here is the world God hates and finds no pleasure in, the world of self-righteousness that permeated the thinking of most of the Jews, and their faith, a world of judgment instead of mercy the whole point of the law, where one could not meet it as a sinner needing God's own forgiveness provided by blood of innocent victim that never sinned against God's law a dumb beast, a goat, a sheep, but not even this insult humbled the hearts of the haughty set upon proving themselves righteous by works of law.

Matt.18:4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. 18:5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me, 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Rom.9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

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