12 Bible Verses about Stumbling Blocks

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

He said,
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

You must not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am Yahweh.

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

“You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts.

But He turned and told Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge! You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

The one who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.