27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. [We are] as dead men in desolate places.

Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

And many shall stumble on it, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.

If thou have run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how can thou contend with horses? And though in a land of peace thou are secure, yet how will thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble.

He remembers his nobles. They stumble in their march. They make haste to the wall of it, and the mantelet is prepared.

the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,

He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another. And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry. For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty; they are fallen, both of them together.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.

Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says LORD.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, [but] it shall not come near thee.

When I said, My foot slips, thy loving kindness, O LORD, held me up.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

Then Jesus says to them, All ye will be caused to stumble by me in this night, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

But having answered, Peter said to him, If all men will be caused to stumble by thee, I will never be caused to stumble.

And David says, Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them.

and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.