As it is written, Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and every one that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Wherefore? Because they sought it, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence to them.

Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling block, or a scandal before a brother.