"These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.

And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement--that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.

while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!

He who loves his brother man continues in the light, and his life puts no stumbling-block in the way of others.

Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.