'Scandal' in the Bible

You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.

but we preach Christ crucified, [a message which is] to Jews a stumbling block [that provokes their opposition], and to Gentiles foolishness [just utter nonsense],

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.