And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'

As Scripture says-'See, I place a Stumbling-block in Zion-- a Rock which shall prove a hindrance; and he who believes in him shall have no cause for shame.'

and David saith, 'Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way.

Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!