27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.

Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and as if we had no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in graves as dead men.

Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know in what they stumble.

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, in which thou didst trust, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

yet he has no root in himself but is temporal, for when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.

He shall remember his valiant ones; they shall stumble in their walk when they make haste to their wall, and the covering shall be prepared.

The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, and there is a multitude of slain and a great number of carcasses; and there shall be no end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses,

He multiplied the fallen; yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity, away from the overcoming sword.

The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry has filled the land; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are both fallen together.

The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.

The glory of Israel is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore, they shall fall among those that shall fall: at the time that I visit them they shall fall, saith the LORD.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those that should fall: when I visit them, they shall fall, saith the LORD.

Thousands shall fall at thy side and ten thousands at thy right hand, but it shall not come near thee.

When I said, My foot slips, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease:

For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.

Then Jesus said unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night; for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended in thee, yet I will never be offended.

And David says, Let their table be turned into a snare and a net and a stumblingblock and a recompense unto them;

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to those who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.