27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.

So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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

If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, how wilt thou then contend with horses? And if in a land of peace thou thinkest thyself in security, how wilt thou then do in the swelling of the Jordan?

but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word, he is immediately offended.

He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared.

The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.

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

The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the earth; for the mighty man stumbleth against the mighty, they are both fallen together.

He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

The beauty of 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 instruments of war perished!

Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.

Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified themselves against me.

Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.