Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for [it is] a necessity [that] causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes.

and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble [because they] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.

But he turned around [and] said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a cause for stumbling to me, because you are not intent on the things of God, but the things of people!"

And he said to his disciples, "It is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe [to him] through whom they come!

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him.

Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make [you] to stand before his glory blameless with exultation,

Why that? Because [they did] not [pursue it] by faith, but as [if] by works. They stumbled over the {stone that causes people to stumble},

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, [did they]? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them [to jealousy].

Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All [things] [are] clean, but [it is] wrong for the person {who eats and stumbles in the process}.

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one [point only] has become guilty of all [of it].

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.