27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

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, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

"If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.

He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.

Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end-- they stumble over the bodies!

He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, 'Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.'

The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.

"Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!"Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

"How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;

For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Peter answered him, "Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away."

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.