Woe to the world from its stumblingblocks! It is a necessity for the stumbling blocks to come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes!
Then Jesus said to them, You all will be caused to stumble in Me in this night. For it has been written, “I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.” Zech. 13:7
But if your right eye causes you to stumble, take it out and throw it from you, for it is profitable to you that one of your members should be destroyed and all your body not be thrown into Hell.
Is this One not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us? And they were stumbled in Him.
And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mariam (Mary), Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;
But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.