Isaiah 8:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.””
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“Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 8:15 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 28:13Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Jeremiah 6:21Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
- Matthew 11:6Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
- Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
- Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
- Luke 20:17But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
- John 6:66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
- Romans 9:32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
- 1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
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