'Cause' in the Bible

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

let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend {continually}."

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.