Bible Verses About Offence: Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

Then Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’