'Occasions' in the Bible

Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

because Jesus was in the process of ordering the unclean spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions the unclean spirit had seized the man, and though he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come!

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: