30 Bible Verses about Hindrances
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But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.
Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.
He said,
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause dissensions and obstacles contrary to the doctrine you have learned. Avoid them,
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;
friends and neighbors will also perish.
So we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us.
One who breaks open the way
will advance before them;
they will break out, pass through the gate,
and leave by it.
Their King will pass through before them,
the Lord as their leader.
But your iniquities have built barriers
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
But He turned and told Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”
‘What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’”
As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”
But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?
“Take nothing for the road,” He told them, “no walking stick, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.
for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?
However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
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Hindrances » Opposers » Examples of
Then he showed me Joshua
But when they resisted and blasphemed,
Just as Jannes and Jambres
They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw it into confusion.
But Elymas the sorcerer (this is the meaning of his name) opposed
Hindrances » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac.
so that the genuineness of your faith
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
When He entered the house, the blind men approached Him, and Jesus said to them,
“Yes, Lord,” they answered Him.
Hindrances » Opposers » Seek to silence the prophets and religious leaders
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.
Therefore, here is what the Lord says concerning the people of Anathoth
but don’t ever prophesy
“They should not preach these things;
shame will not overtake us.”
Hindrances » Obstacles that test the faith of believers » Lack of sympathy on the part of the church
Some
Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples
Hindrances » Test believers » Lack of sympathy on the part of the church
Some
Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » The attempt to use the equipment of saul delayed david
David strapped his sword on over the military clothes and tried to walk, but he was not used to them. “I can’t walk in these,” David said to Saul, “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Worldly possessions kept back the rich young man from discipleship
When the young man heard that command, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Discouraged men opposed the building of the wall of jerusalem
In Judah, it was said:
since there is so much rubble.
We will never be able
to rebuild the wall.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Worldly allurements prevented the escape of lot's wife
But his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Unbelief hindered Christ's work in nazareth
Hindrances » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,
Hindrances » Obstacles that test the faith of believers » Discouraging circumstances
Just then some men came, carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him. Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.
Hindrances » Test believers » Discouraging circumstances
Just then some men came, carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him. Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Weights, as well as sins, impede progress
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses
Hindrances » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
“Get up, go to Zarephath
Hindrances » Faith tested » Examples of
“Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love,
Hindrances » Obstacles that test the faith of believers » Divine delays, not a hindrance but a test
So the sisters sent a message to Him: "Lord, the one You love is sick." When Jesus heard it, He said, "This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." (Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.) read more.
So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
Hindrances » Test believers » Divine delays, not a hindrance but a test
So the sisters sent a message to Him: "Lord, the one You love is sick." When Jesus heard it, He said, "This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." (Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.) read more.
So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Imaginary hindrances loom up before the Christian worker
They were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?" Looking up, they observed that the stone-which was very large-had been rolled away.
Hindrances » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
Then he said, “Go and borrow empty containers from everyone—from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.
Hindrances » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
So King Joram marched out from Samaria at that time and mobilized all Israel.
Hindrances » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
Hindrances » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
The Lord said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and hand the Midianites over to you. But everyone else is to go home.”
Hindrances » Obstacles that test the faith of believers » Unbelieving friends
While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher
Hindrances » Test believers » Unbelieving friends
While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher
Hindrances » Obstacles that test the faith of believers » Scoffers
So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory
Hindrances » Test believers » Scoffers
So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory
Hindrances » To spiritual progress » Family ties prevent a man from following Christ
Then He said to another,
“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”
Topics on Hindrances
Edification, Hindrances To
1 Corinthians 3:1-4Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.
Worship, Hindrances To
1 Samuel 15:22Then Samuel said:
as much as in obeying the Lord?
to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.