27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, setting up deep gloom.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.

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

And many among them shall stumble 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 you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?

But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, he immediately stumbles.

He shall remember his nobles; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall make haste to its wall, and the covering shall be prepared.

The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the lightning of the spear. And many are slain, and there are a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble on their dead bodies,

He made many fall; yea, one fell on another. And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.

The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they have both fallen together.

a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.

The beauty of Israel is slain upon your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your 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 Jehovah.

Were they ashamed when they had done an 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 Jehovah.

A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you.

When I said, My foot slips; Your mercy, O Jehovah, held me up.

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is always before me.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

For I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

Then Jesus said to them, All of you will be offended because of Me this night. For it is written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad."

Peter answered and said to Him, though all shall be offended because of You, I will never be offended.

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.