Bible Verses About Obstruction

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.