And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way.

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

as it has been written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which ye learned; and turn away from them.

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles.