And David saith, "Let their table be for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompence unto them:

Let us therefore no more judge one another; but judge this rather, that no one put a stumbling-block or offence before his brother.

Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling;

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.

and a stone of stumbling, and rock of offence," to those who stumble at the word, disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed.

But take heed that this power of yours become not an occasion of stumbling to the weak.

as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and every one that believeth in him shall not be confounded."

For if their stumbling is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Give no occasion of stumbling either to the Jews or the Gentiles, or the church of God:

He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none.

Now to him who is able to guard you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exultation,

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because he seeth the light of this world.

Then Jesus, conscious in himself that his disciples murmured concerning this discourse, said unto them, Doth this stumble you?

THESE things have I spoken, that ye might not be stumbled.

It is laudable not to eat flesh, or to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother is stumbled, or scandalized, or weakened.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble:

hath not really root in himself, but is merely temporary: and when tribulation or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately he is stumbled.

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones, who believe in me, to stumble, it were better for him that a millstone was hung at his neck, and that he was sunk in the depth of the sea.