27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling
Most Relevant Verses
If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”
Give glory to the Lord your God
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.
We grope along a wall like the blind;
we grope like those without eyes.
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.
Many will stumble over these;
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they don’t know what makes them stumble.
If you have raced with runners
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in a peaceful land,
what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
He gives orders to his officers;
they stumble as they advance.
They race to its wall;
the protective shield is set in place.
Charging horseman,
flashing sword,
shining spear;
heaps of slain,
mounds of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over their dead.
He continues to stumble.
Indeed, each falls over the other.
They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people
and to the land of our birth,
away from the sword that oppresses.”
The nations have heard of your dishonor,
and your outcry fills the earth,
because warrior stumbles against warrior
and together both of them have fallen.
The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights.
How the mighty have fallen!
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle!
Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently?
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,
says the Lord.
Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently?
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,”
says the Lord.
Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.
If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
Your faithful love will support me, Lord.
But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.
For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”
Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will run away because of Me, for it is written:
I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away because of You, I will never run away!”
And David says:
Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.
and
A stone to stumble over,
and a rock to trip over.
They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.
