Isaiah 8:15

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

¹³Therefore the LORD’s word will 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, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

¹⁷But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

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

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

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

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

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

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