skandalizo describes causing someone to stumble or being made to stumble, sometimes with the result of falling away under pressure.

The verb describes an action or circumstance that causes a person to stumble and, in passive clauses, the person’s being made to stumble. The supplied verses apply it to a brother affected by food, little ones harmed by another’s conduct, bodily members that lead a person astray, and responses that include falling away under pressure or because of someone.

1. Causing or undergoing a stumbling · dominant

   Active forms identify what may bring another person to stumble: in 1 Corinthians 8:13 the APB renders food causing a brother to stumble, and in Matthew 18:6 it renders a warning about causing believing little ones to stumble. The same use can name a person’s own hand or eye as the cause in Matthew 5:29, while passive forms describe those affected: in Mark 4:17 the APB renders their response to trouble or persecution as immediately falling away, and in Matthew 13:57 it renders people being caused to stumble at him.

   1 Corinthians 8:13Matthew 18:6Matthew 5:29Mark 4:17Matthew 13:57John 16:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the verb with “cause” or “made” to stumble, but in contexts of adverse response it also uses “fall away” and, in Matthew 15:12, “were offended.” These variations describe the verses’ translated clauses rather than fixed English equivalents.