50 Bible Verses about Stumbling

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Leviticus 26:37

And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when no man pursues. And ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

Isaiah 28:7

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment.

Nahum 2:5

He remembers his nobles. They stumble in their march. They make haste to the wall of it, and the mantelet is prepared.

Nahum 3:3

the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,

Psalm 56:13

For thou have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

1 Samuel 2:4

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

Job 4:4

Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

Psalm 37:24

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for LORD upholds him with his hand.

Jeremiah 20:11

But LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall

Psalm 9:3

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Isaiah 8:14

And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Proverbs 3:23

Then thou shall walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Proverbs 4:11-12

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in paths of uprightness. When thou go, thy steps shall not be restricted. And if thou run, thou shall not stumble.

Isaiah 26:7-8

The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, we have waited for thee, to thy name. Even to thy memorial, is the desire of our soul.

Isaiah 40:30-31

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Isaiah 59:14

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Jeremiah 50:32

And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah also shall stumble with them.

Hosea 4:5

And thou shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night. And I will destroy thy mother.

Malachi 2:8

But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 18:15

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to FALSE [gods]. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up,

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill t

Isaiah 31:3

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit. And when LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they shall all be consumed together.

Ezekiel 14:3-4

Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet, I LORD will

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which h

Daniel 11:35

And some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Romans 9:32-33

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

1 Peter 2:8

and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

Romans 14:20

Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance.

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Stumbling » Figurative » Stumbling-block

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against thee, because thou have there men who adhere to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, even to eat idol sacrifices, and to fornicate.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill t

Stumbling » Figurative » Stone of

Isaiah 8:14

And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Romans 9:32-33

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed.

Stumbling » Figurative » Causes of

Psalm 69:6

Let not those who wait for thee be put to shame through me, O lord LORD of hosts. Let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

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John 11:9

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

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John 11:10

But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

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