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# stumbling block, stone of stumbling
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## Definition
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The term "stumbling block" or "stone of stumbling" literally refers to a physical object that causes a person to trip and fall.
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* A figurative stumbling block is anything that causes a person to fail in a moral or spiritual sense.
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* Also figuratively, a "stumbling block" or "stone of stumbling" can be something that prevents someone from having faith in Jesus or that causes someone to not grow spiritually.
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* Often it is sin that is like a stumbling block to oneself or to others.
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## Translation Suggestions
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* This term could also be translated as, "stone that causes stumbling" or "something that causes someone to not believe" or "obstacle that causes doubt" or "obstacle to faith" or "something that causes someone to sin."
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* Often "stumbling block" is used to translate a word that means "trap" or "snare."
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