– Stumble, obstacle, which can be material:
Leviticus 19:14 : Thou shalt not curse a deaf man; Thou shalt not put a thing as a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God.
– Or figuratively:
Jt 5:20 : Finally, they defeated the Canaanite, Jebusite, Perizzite, Hittite, Hivite, Amorite kings.
Mt 6:23 : If the light that is in you is darkness, how thick must that darkness be!
Rom 9:32-33 : Because Israel sought it as the fruit not of faith but of works. And he stumbled over the stone of scandal.
– Which leads to stumbling on the paths of faith: the intervention of God to shake his people is a scandal:
Is 8,14 : He will be the stone of scandal and the stone of stumbling for the two houses of Israel.
Is 28:16 : A precious foundation stone: whoever trusts in it will not stumble.
– How Jesus constitutes a scandal for the human being:
Mt 11,6 : Blessed is he for whom I am not an occasion to fall!
Mt 26:31 : This night will be an occasion for all of you to fall.
Lc 2,34 : Behold, this child is destined to be a cause of fall and rise.
Jo 1,5.10 : The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it.
Jn 3:19 : But men loved darkness more than light, for their deeds were evil.
Jo 9,39 : I came into this world to make a discrimination: let those who do not see see, and those who see become blind.
1Cor 1:23 : But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
1Pt 2,6-8 : The stone that the builders rejected has become […] a stone of offense (Ps 117,22; Is 8,14).
– Threats:
Pr 28:10 : Whoever seduces upright men into an evil path will fall into the ditch he himself dug.
Mt 18:6 : It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the depths of the sea.
Mk 9:42 : It would have been better for him if a millstone had been put around his neck and he had been thrown into the sea!
Lc 17,1 : It is impossible for there not to be scandals, but woe to the one through whom they come!
1Cor 8,12 : Thus, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
– Exhortations:
2Mc 6,24 : “It is not fitting for our age”, he replied, “to use such pretense”.
Mt 13,40ss : They will remove from their Kingdom all scandals and all who do evil.
Rom 14:21 : It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or anything that could cause your brother to fall.
1Cor 10,32 : Do not become a cause of scandal, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.
– Pharisaic scandal:
Mt 13:57 : But Jesus said to them: “It is only in his homeland and in his family that a prophet is despised”.
Mk 6:3: Isn’t he the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James […] Don’t his sisters also live here among us?
Mk 7:23 : All these vices proceed from within and make man unclean.
Jn 6:61 : Knowing Jesus that the disciples were murmuring about this, he asked them: “Does this offend you?”.
Rm 14,13 : Rather, be careful not to put a stumbling block in front of your brother or give him an opportunity to fall.
– Provoking scandal can be a sin:
Leviticus 4:3: If the one who has sinned is an anointed priest, so that the people become guilty.
Mt 18,6-7 : Woe to the world because of scandals! They are inevitable, but woe to the man who causes them!
Rom 14 : 6-15: Do not bring destruction on the one for whom Christ died through food!
1Cor 8,10-11 : So by your knowledge, he who is weak will be lost, a brother, for whom Christ died!
– And therefore lead to punishment:
Ps 7:16 : He opens a deep ditch, but falls into the abyss he dug himself.
Pr 26,27 : Whoever digs a ditch, falls into it; whoever rolls a stone will fall under it.
Pr 28:10 : Whoever seduces upright men into an evil path will fall into the ditch he himself dug.
Eccl 10 :8 : A kingdom passes from one people to another because of injustices, outrages and various frauds.
Eclo 27,25-26 : He who has a flattering look plots dark purposes, and no one can take him away.
Mt 13,41-42 : The Son of Man will send his angels, who will remove all scandals from his Kingdom.
Mt 18,6-7 : It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the depths of the sea.
Lc 17,2 : It would be better for him to have it tied around his neck.
– It is necessary to avoid the real scandal:
2Mc 6,24-25 : “It is not fitting for our age”, he replied, “to use such pretense”.
Mt 18,7 : Woe to the world because of scandals!
Lc 17,1-2 : It is impossible for there not to be scandals, but woe to the one through whom they come!
Rom 14:15.21 : Do not eat meat or drink wine or anything that could cause your brother to fall.
1Cor 8,9-10 : Beware, however: that this freedom of yours does not become an occasion for the fall of the weak.
1Cor 10:23 : Everything is permissible, but not everything is opportune. Everything is allowed, but not everything edifies.
2Cor 6,3 : We give no reason to offend anyone, so that our ministry may not be criticized.
– And whoever or whatever is the occasion of it, it is necessary to avoid:
Ex 34,12 : Beware of making any pact with the inhabitants of the land you are about to enter.
Mt 5,29-30 : If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.
Mt 17:27 : But it is not good to offend them.
Rom 16:17 : I beg you, brothers, to be suspicious of those who cause divisions and scandals.
