50 Bible Verses about Stumbling

Do not curse a deaf man. Do not place a stumbling block before the blind. You must deeply respect your God. I am Jehovah.

They will stumble over each other. Yet no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies.

My innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.

He remembers his majestic ones. They stumble as they march. They hurry to the wall to prepare the barricade.

The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.

For you have delivered me from death, and my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The bows of the mighty are broken. Those who stumbled are girded with strength.

When someone stumbled, you lifted him up with your words. When knees were weak, you gave them strength.

When he falls, he will not be thrown down headfirst because Jehovah holds on to his hand.

You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

Jehovah is with me like a powerful champion. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed! They have failed with an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.

Evildoers accosted me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell.

He will be a place of safety for you. But he will be a rock that makes people trip and a stumbling block for both kingdoms of Israel. He will be a trap and a snare for those who live in Jerusalem.

Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.

Those who love your law have abundant peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

You will walk in your way safely. Your foot will not stumble.

I taught you wisdom and the right way to live. Walk with wisdom and nothing will stand in your way. Run with wisdom and you will not stumble.

The path of the righteous is level. O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. Yes, Jehovah, walking in the way of your Laws, we wait for you. Your name and your fame are the desire of our hearts.

Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

Let the wise understand these things. Let the discerning know them. For the ways of Jehovah are right. And the righteous will walk in them. But transgressors will stumble in them.

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.

Those prideful people will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to help them get up. I will light a fire in their cities that will burn up everything around them.

The pride of Israel testifies about them. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah will also stumble with them.

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will stumble with you in the night. I will destroy your mother.

You priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have corrupted the covenant I made with Levi (you).

My people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways. They stray from the ancient paths to walk in pathways and not on a highway.

They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.

The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.

Son of man, these people are devoted to their idols. They allow themselves to sin. Should they be allowed to ask me for anything? Speak to them. Tell them, 'This is what Jehovah says: Suppose an Israelite is devoted to idols and allows himself to sin. Suppose he goes to a prophet to ask for my help. I, Jehovah, will give that Israelite an answer, the answer that his many idolaters deserve.

Therefore, Jehovah says: I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. They will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbors and friends will perish.

If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble and they will die. If you do not warn them, they will die because of their sin. The right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

Some of them who are wise (have insight) will fall. This will refine them, and purify them, and make them clean, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone. It is written: Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence and he that believes on him will not be ashamed. (Isaiah 8:14)

When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

We preach Christ impaled. It is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the nations!

It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.

Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

Do not stumble or offend (do not lead into sin), neither to the Jews, nor to the nations, nor to the congregation of God.