1 Peter 2:8
and: "A stone for them to stumble over and a rock to trip them up." They keep on stumbling over the message, because they are disobedient to it, and this is their appointed doom.
Romans 9:22
And what if God, though wishing to display His anger and make known His power, yet, has most patiently borne with the objects of His anger, already ripe for destruction,
1 Corinthians 1:23
we are preaching the Christ who was crucified -- a message that is a trap-stick to the Jews and nonsense to the Greeks,
Jude 1:4
For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Luke 2:34
Then Symeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to bring the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign continuously disputed --
Romans 9:32-33
Why? Because they did not try through faith but through what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a deadly perfume that leads to death, to the other a living perfume that leads to life.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God appointed us not to reap His wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 2:7
So to you who put your trust in Him the honor belongs, but to those who fail to trust Him: "That stone which then the builders threw away Has now become the cornerstone,"
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed they will exploit you with messages manufactured by themselves. From of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction has not been slumbering.