Their teaching will lead you when you travel, protect you at night, and advise you during the day.

You have kept me from being captured, and I have never fallen.

Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall---victims of their own advice.

They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;

You have kept me from being captured, and I have never fallen.

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

You can go safely on your way and never even stumble.

God will put his angels in charge of you to protect you wherever you go.

They will hold you up with their hands to keep you from hurting your feet on the stones.

Those who love your law have perfect security, and there is nothing that can make them fall.

My people will return weeping, praying as I lead them back. I will guide them to streams of water, on a smooth road where they will not stumble. I am like a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my oldest son."

Jesus said, "A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.

But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."

And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the "stumbling stone"

that the scripture speaks of: "Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

And another scripture says, "This is the stone that will make people stumble, the rock that will make them fall." They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's will for them.

If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.