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

and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

then saith Jesus to them, `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;