14 And he must become as a sacred place;*+ but as a stone to strike against and as a rock over which to stumble+ to both the houses of Israel, as a trap and as a snare to the inhabitants* of Jerusalem.+

9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things?+ Discreet, that he may know them?+ For the ways of Jehovah are upright,+ and the righteous are the ones who will walk in them;+ but the transgressors are the ones who will stumble in them.+

23 but we preach Christ impaled,+ to the Jews a cause for stumbling+ but to the nations foolishness;+

8 and “a stone of stumbling and a rock-mass of offense.”+ These are stumbling because they are disobedient to the word.* To this very end they were also appointed.+