1 Peter 2:8
and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.
Romans 9:22
And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,
1 Corinthians 1:23
We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,
Jude 1:4
For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.
Luke 2:34
Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother: "This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against--
Romans 9:32-33
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the latter we are an odor which arises from death and tells of Death; to the former an odor which arises from life and tells of Life. But who is equal to such a task?
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God destined us, not for Wrath, but to win Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,
1 Peter 2:7
It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is 'a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,'
2 Peter 2:3
In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.