27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.

We grope like blind men along a wall. We grope like people without eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were evening. We are like dead people among the living.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

Many will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

Jehovah says: Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you cannot even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the thicket by the Jordan?

There is no root in him. He endures for a while. When he has tribulation or persecution because of the word, he falls away.

He remembers his majestic ones. They stumble as they march. They hurry to the wall to prepare the barricade.

The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.

They have repeatedly stumbled and now they have fallen. They say to each other: 'Get up! Let us go back to our people, to the land where we were born and escape our enemy's sword.'

The nations have heard of your shame. Your cry fills the earth. One warrior will stumble over another, and both will fall together.

Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

The brave soldiers have fallen. They were killed in battle. Jonathan lies dead in the hills.

The mighty have fallen, their weapons abandoned and useless.

Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down, Says Jehovah.

They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

If I should say: My foot has slipped, your loving kindness, O Jehovah, will hold me up.

I am ready to fall. I feel pain continually.

Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping.

I said: Do not let them gloat over me. When my foot slips, do not let them promote themselves at my expense.

Jesus said to them: All of you will fall away because of me tonight. It is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Peter answered: Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.

David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and recompense to them.

It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.