7 Bible Verses about People Stumbling

But, if he walks about at night, he stumbles, because he has not the light."

Therefore let the man who thinks that he stands take care that he does not fall.

But, as he has no root, he stands for only a short time; and, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Message, he falls away at once.

Then Jesus said to them: "Even you will all fall away from me to-night. Scripture says--'I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

"If every one else falls away from you," Peter answered, "I shall never fall away!"

David, too, says--'May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them--a hindrance and a retribution;

and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.