27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But if a man walk in the night he stumbleth, because there is no light in him."

Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noonday, as though it were toward night; in the falling places, like men that are half dead.

Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.

And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."

But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.

"Seeing thou art weary in running with the footmen, how wilt thou then run with the horses? In a peaceable sure land thou mayest be safe, but how wilt thou do in the furious pride of Jordan?

yet hath no roots in himself, and therefore dureth but a season: for as soon as tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he falleth.

When he doth but warn his giants, they all in their array, and hastily they climb up the walls: yea, the engines of the war are prepared already.

There the horsemen get up with naked swords, and glistering spears. There lieth a multitude slain, and a great heap of dead bodies. There is no end of dead corpses: yea, men fall upon their bodies.

The slaughter was great, for one fell ever still upon another. One cried upon another, 'Up, let us go again to our own people, and to our own natural country, from the sword of our enemy.'

The Heathen shall hear of thy shame, and the land shall be full of thy confusion: for one strong man shall stumble upon another. How then should they not fall both together?"

Godliness is a light despised in the hearts of the rich, and is set for them to stumble upon.

"The glory of Israel is slain upon the high hills: Oh how were the mighty overthrown!

How were the mighty slain in battle? Jonathan on the high hills was wounded to death.

How were the mighty overthrown, and how were the weapons of war forlorn!"

Therefore they must be ashamed, for they have committed abomination. But how should they be ashamed, when they know nothing, neither of shame nor good nurture? And therefore they shall fall among the slain; and in the hour when I shall visit them, they shall be brought down," sayeth the LORD.

Fie! For shame! How abominable things do they? And yet they be not ashamed; yea, they know of no shame. Wherefore in the time of their visitation, they shall fall among the dead bodies, sayeth the LORD.

A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

When I said, "My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."

I am ready to suffer trouble, and my heaviness is ever in my sight.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.

My desire is that mine enemies triumph not over me; for if my foot slip, they rejoice greatly against me.

Then said Jesus unto them, "All ye shall be offended by 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 unto him, "Though all men should be offended by thee, yet would I never be offended."

And David saith, "Let their table be made a snare to take them withal, and an occasion to fall, and a reward unto them.

and a stone to stumble at, and a rock to offend them which stumble at the word, and believe not that whereon they were set.