in agreement with the statement of Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a stone for people to stumble at, and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose faith rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed."

and "a Stone for the foot to strike against, and a Rock to stumble over." Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.

Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!

"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,

Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

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.

But to Him who is able to keep you safe from stumbling, and cause you to stand in the presence of His glory free from blemish and full of exultant joy--

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.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ.

For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.