not to allow one's self to be persuaded

1. to refuse or withhold belief

2. to refuse belief and obedience

not to comply with

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

and, also, even, indeed, but

a stone

1. of small stones

2. of building stones

3. metaph. of Christ

of speech

1. a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea

2. what someone has said

   1. a word

   2. the sayings of God

   3. decree, mandate or order

   4. of the moral precepts given by God

   5. Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets

   6. what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim

3. discourse

   1. the act of speaking, speech

   2. the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking

   3. a kind or style of speaking

   4. a continuous speaking discourse - instruction

4. doctrine, teaching

5. anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative

6. matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law

7. the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed

its use as respect to the MIND alone

1. reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating

2. account, i.e. regard, consideration

3. account, i.e. reckoning, score

4. account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment

5. relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation

   1. reason would

6. reason, cause, ground

In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world's life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man's salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds.

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

who, which, what, that

a rock, cliff or ledge

1. a projecting rock, crag, rocky ground

2. a rock, a large stone

3. metaph. a man like a rock, by reason of his firmness and strength of soul

a stumbling block

1. an obstacle in the way which if one strikes his foot against he stumbles or falls

2. that over which a soul stumbles i.e. by which is caused to sin

to strike against

1. of those who strike against a stone or other obstacle in the path, to stumble

2. to strike one's foot against a stone

   1. i.e. to meet with some harm;

3. to rush upon, beat against

4. to be made to stumble by a thing

   1. i.e. metaph. to be induced to sin

the movable stick or trigger of a trap, a trap stick

1. a trap, snare

2. any impediment placed in the way and causing one to stumble or fall, (a stumbling block, occasion of stumbling) i.e. a rock which is a cause of stumbling

3. fig. applied to Jesus Christ, whose person and career were so contrary to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah, that they rejected him and by their obstinacy made shipwreck of their salvation

any person or thing by which one is (entrapped) drawn into error or sin

to set, put, place

1. to place or lay

2. to put down, lay down

   1. to bend down

   2. to lay off or aside, to wear or carry no longer

   3. to lay by, lay aside money

3. to set on (serve) something to eat or drink

4. to set forth, something to be explained by discourse

to make

1. to make (or set) for one's self or for one's use

to set, fix establish

1. to set forth

2. to establish, ordain