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

⁴⁴ He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

¹³ Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on 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; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

⁶ Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

¹⁷ But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'

¹⁸ "Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, But it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

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

³² Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

²³ but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,