¹⁵ And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

⁴⁴ And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

¹³ Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

⁶ And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.

¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

¹⁷ But he looked upon them, and said, What then is this that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner?

¹⁸ Every one that falleth on that stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

⁶⁶ Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

³² Wherefore? Because `they sought it' not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;