27 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured."

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

The Lord answered, "If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only in safe and open country, how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties -- so many that people will stumble over the corpses.

I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say, 'Get up! Let's go back to our own people. Let's go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.'

The nations will hear of your devastating defeat. your cries of distress will echo throughout the earth. In the panic of their flight one soldier will trip over another and both of them will fall down defeated."

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) -- a fate for those whose feet slip!

The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

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

How the warriors have fallen! The weapons of war are destroyed!

Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them," says the Lord.

Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord.

Though a thousand may fall beside you, and a multitude on your right side, it will not reach you.

If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.

For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.

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

Peter said to him, "If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!"

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

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.