Ezekiel 7:19
7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth.
Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the
Lord’s fury.
They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth
was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.
Ezekiel 14:3
14:3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity
right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek
me?
Ezekiel 14:7-9
14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the
Lord am determined to answer him personally.
14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword
and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the
Lord.
14:9 “‘As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word – I, the Lord, have made a fool of that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.
Deuteronomy 13:3
13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer,
for the
Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him
with all your mind and being.
Psalms 119:165
119:165 Those who love your law are completely secure;
nothing causes them to stumble.
Isaiah 8:14
8:14 He will become a sanctuary,
but a stone that makes a person trip,
and a rock that makes one stumble –
to the two houses of Israel.
He will become a trap and a snare
to the residents of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 6:21
6:21 So, this is what the Lord says:
‘I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom.
Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction.
Friends and neighbors will die.’
Luke 2:34
2:34 Then
Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully:
This child
is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising
of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.
Romans 9:32-33
9:32 Why not? Because they pursued
it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works.
They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
9:33 just as it is written,
“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble
and a rock that will make them fall,
yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Romans 11:9
11:9 And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
Romans 11:1
Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Colossians 1:23
1:23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,
without shifting
from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
Colossians 1:2
1:2 to the saints, the faithful
brothers and sisters
in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you
from God our Father!
Colossians 2:9-12
2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives
in bodily form,
2:10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
2:11 In him you also were circumcised – not, however,
with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal
of the fleshly body,
that is,
through the circumcision done by Christ.
2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your
faith in the power
of God who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:1
2:1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.
Colossians 2:8
2:8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you
through an empty, deceitful philosophy
that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits
of the world, and not according to Christ.