And He shall be a sanctuary for you; but a stone of stumbling, and a rock of falling to both the houses of Israel; and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear a path! Remove the stumbling block out of the way of My people.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against

Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

As it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.

but we preach Christ crucified, truly to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, The stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of the corner,

And indeed for this purpose I have ordained you, to show My power in you, and to declare My name in all the earth.

What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were set forth to this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.