27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling
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But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
Give glory to the Lord your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.
We grope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We stumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
“Many will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken;
They will even be snared and caught.”
The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out,
Then how can you compete with horses?
If you fall down in a land of peace,
How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?
yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.
He remembers his nobles;
They stumble in their march,
They hurry to her wall,
And the mantelet is set up.
Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, spears gleaming,
Many slain, a mass of corpses,
And countless dead bodies—
They stumble over the dead bodies!
“They have repeatedly stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back
To our own people and our native land
Away from the sword of the oppressor.’
The nations have heard of your shame,
And the earth is full of your cry of distress;
For one warrior has stumbled over another,
And both of them have fallen down together.
“He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt,
As prepared for those whose feet slip.
“Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!
How have the mighty fallen!
“How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan is slain on your high places.
“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.
“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush;
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says the Lord.
A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But it shall not approach you.
If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.
For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”
Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’
But Peter said to Him, “Even though all may fall away because of You, I will never fall away.”
And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
