60 Bible Verses about Offence

And when there shall be sin in a man of the judgment of death, and he being put to death, and thou shalt hang him upon a tree: His carcass shall not pass the night upon the tree; for burying, ye shall bury him in that day, for he being hung is the curse of God; and thou shalt not defile thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die. And he stealing a man, and selling him, and being found in his hand, dying, he shall die. And he making light of his father and his mother, dying, he shall die.read more.
And if men shall contend, and a man struck his friend with a stone or with the fist, and he shall not die, and he fell upon the bed: If he shall rise and go forth without upon his support, and he smiting being innocent, only he shall give his resting, and healing, he shall be healed. And if a man shall strike his servant or his maid with a rod, and he died under his hand, avenging, he shall be avenged. But if a day or two days he shall stand, he shall not be avenged, for he is his silver. And if men shall quarrel and strike a woman pregnant, and her child shall go forth, and there shall not be harm, punishing, he shall be punished, as the husband of the woman shall put upon him; and he giving in justice. And if there shall be harm, and he gave soul for soul, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him. If the sun was risen upon him, bloods for him: recompensing, he shall recompense; if nothing to him, to be sold for his theft.read more.
If finding, the theft shall be found in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a sheep; living, he shall recompense two. If a man shall feed a field or vineyard, and send forth the cattle and feed in another field: from the good of his field and from the good of his vineyard shall he recompense.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established. If a witness of wrong shall rise up against a man to testify apostasy against him; And the two men to whom is the contention stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;read more.
And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother; And ye did to him as he purposed to do to his brother: and put away evil from the midst of thee And they remaining shall hear, and fear, and shall no more add to do according to this evil word in the midst of thee. And thine eye shall not pity; soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot

And a man did abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man defiled his daughter-in-law in wickedness; and a man humbled his sister, his father's daughter, in thee.

If a man shall seduce a virgin who was not betrothed, and lying with her, endowing, he shall endow her to him for a wife. If her father refusing shall refuse to give her to him, he shall weigh the silver according to the dowry of virgins.

A man, a man to any remainder of his flesh ye shall not come near to uncover nakedness: I am Jehovah. The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother thou shalt not uncover: it is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.read more.
The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother, born within or born without, thou shalt not uncover their nakedness. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, thou shalt not uncover their nakedness, for theirs is thy nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father (she is thy sister), thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's sister, thou shalt not uncover: she is thy father's remainder. The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou shalt not uncover, for she thy mother's remainder. The nakedness of thy father's brother thou shalt not uncover: to his wife thou shalt not draw near; she is thine aunt The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou shalt not uncover: she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness. The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou shalt not uncover; her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, thou shalt not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her remainder; it is wickedness. And a wife to her sister thou shalt not take to press to uncover her nakedness with her, in her living. And to a woman in the impurity of her uncleanness, thou shalt not come near, to uncover her nakedness. To thy neighbor's wife thou shalt not give thy effusion of seed to be defiled with her. And from thy seed thou shalt not give to pass over to Molech, and thou shalt not profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. And with a male thou shalt not lie on a woman's bed: it is abomination. And to any quadruped thou shalt not give thy bed, to be defiled with it: and a woman shall not stand before a quadruped, to lie with it: it is profanation.

If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her, And he set pretexts of words against her, and brought up an evil name upon her, and said, I took this woman, and I shall come near to her, and I found in her not a virgin: And the father of the young girl took, and her mother, and brought the signs of virginity of the young girl to the elders of the city to the gate:read more.
And the father of the maiden said to the old men, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife and he will hate her, And behold, he set up pretexts of words, saying, I found not in thy daughter the signs of virginity; and these the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they spread the garment before the old men of the city. And the old men of that city took the man and chastised him; And they amerced him a hundred of silver, and gave to the father of the maiden, for he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be to him for a wife; he shall not be able to send her away all his days. And if this word was the truth, and the signs of virginity not found for the maiden: And they brought the maiden to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city stoned her with stones and she died; for she did folly in Israel to commit fornication in her father's house: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee. When a man shall be found lying with the woman mistress of a husband, and they died, also they two, the man lying with the woman, and the woman: and thou didst put away evil from Israel. When there shall be a maiden, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man found her in the city and lay with her; And ye brought out them two to the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they died; and the maiden for the word which she cried not in the city, and the man for the word which he humbled his neighbor's wife: and thou didst put away evil from the midst of thee. And if in the field the man shall find the betrothed maiden, and the man held fast upon her, and lay with her, and the man that lay with her died alone. And to the maiden thou shalt not do a word; not to the maiden the sin of death: for as a man shall rise up against his friend, and he killed him the soul, so this word. For in the field he found her, the betrothed maiden cried and none saving her. When a man shall find a maiden, a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold upon her and lay with her, and they were were found; And the man lying with her gave to the maiden's father fifty of silver, and to him she shall be for a wife; because that he humbled her, he shall not be able to send her away all his days. A man shall not take his father's wife and shall not uncover his father's wing.

And it will kindle to Abner greatly for the words of the man of shame, and he will say, Am I the head of a dog which against Judah this day will do mercy with the house of Saul thy father to his brethren and to his friends, and not delivering thee into the hand of David, and thou wilt review over me concerning the woman this day?

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And all Israel heard, saying, Saul struck a garrison of rovers, and Israel became loathsome with the rovers; and the people will be convoked together after Saul to Gilgal.

And the sons of Ammon will see that they became loathsome before David, and the sons of Ammon will send and hire Aram of the house of Rehob, and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and king Maacah a thousand men, and Ish-Tob two thousand men.

And the sons of Ammon will see that they were loathsome with David, and Hanun will send, and the sons of Ammon, a thousand talents of silver to hire to them from Aram of the rivers and from Aram-Maachah, and from Zobah, chariots and horsemen.

And I gave them for maltreatment, and for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a parable, and for a derision, and for a curse in, all the places which I shall thrust them away there.

And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, Come in to thy father's concubines which he left to watch the house; and all Israel hearing that thou madest thy father loathsome, and the hands of all that are with thee were strengthened.

And Abraham will remove from thence to the land of the south, and will dwell between Kadesh and between Shur, and will sojourn in Gerar. And Abraham will say as to Sarah his wife, This my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, will send and take Sarah. And God will come to Abimelech in a dream at night, and say to him, Behold, thou dead, for the woman which thou didst take, and she having married a husband.read more.
And Abimelech came not near to her: and he will say, Lord, wilt thou also slay a just nation? Did he not say to me, This my sister? and she also, she said he is my brother: in the uprightness of my heart, and in cleanness of my hands have I done this. And God will say to him in a dream, I knew also that in the uprightness of thy heart thou didst this; and I also will restrain thee from sinning against me: for this I suffered thee not to touch her. And now turn back to the man the woman; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and do thou live: and if thou turn her not back, know that dying, thou shalt die, thou and all which are to thee. And Abimelech will rise early in the morning, and will call to all his serants, and will speak all these words in their ears: and the men shall be greatly afraid. And Abimelech will call to Abraham, and say to him, What didst thou to us? and what did we sin against thee, that thou didst bring upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou didst works to me which shall not be done. And Abimelech will say to Abraham, What sawest thou that thou didst this thing? And Abraham will say, For I said, Surely there is not the fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife. And truly also my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she was to me for wife. And it shall be when God causes me to wander front my father's house, and I said to. her, This thy kindness which thou shalt do by me; at every place to which we shall come, there say of me, He is my brother. And Abimelech will take sheep and oxen and servants, and maid-servants, and will give to Abraham, and will return to him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech will say, Behold, my land before thy face: dwell in the good in thine eyes. And to Sarah he said, Behold, I gave a thousand of silver to thy brother; behold, he is to thee for a garment of the eyes to all who are with thee, and with all: and she was set right

And it will be after these words, The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt, and the baker, sinned to their lord the king of Egypt

And one boy of the boys announced to Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers from the desert to bless my lord; and he will fly upon them. And the men were good to us exceedingly, and they harmed us not, and we missed not any thing all the days we went with them in our being in the field. They were a wall to us, also the night, also the day, all the days we were with them feeding the sheep.read more.
And now know and see what thou wilt do; for evil was finished against our lord and upon all his house: and he a son of Belial, from speaking to him. And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses. And she will say to her boys, Pass over before me; behold me coming after you. And she announced not to her husband Nabal. And it was she rode upon the ass, and came down in the hiding of the mountain, and behold, David and his men coming down to meet her; and she will meet them. (And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good. Thus will God do the enemies of David and thus will he add if I shall leave from all which is to him till the light of the morning, him pissing against the wall.) And Abigail will see David, and will hasten, and will come down from the ass, and fall before David upon her face, and will worship him to the earth. And she will fall at his feet and say, In me, my lord, me the iniquity; and thy servant now will speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy servant. Now my lord shall not set his heart to this man of Belial upon Nebel: for as his name, so is he: Nabal his name, and folly with him: and I thy servant saw not the boys of my lord which thou sentest And now my lord, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, for Jehovah withheld thee from coming by blood, and saving thy hand to thyself, and now thine enemies shall be as Nabal, they seeking out evil to my lord. And now this blessing which thy servant brought to my give it to the boys going at the feet of my lord. Lift up now, to the trespass of thy servant: for making, Jehovah will make to my lord a faithful house; for Jehovah fought the battles of my lord, and evil shall not be found in thee thy days.

My spirit was loathsome to my wife, and I entreated to the sons of my belly.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

A brother falling away, above a city of strength; and strifes as the bars of a fortress.

The understanding of man will defer his anger: and his glory to pass over transgression.

And having come into his native land, he taught them in their assembly, so that they were struck with amazement, and said, Whence to him this wisdom, and powers? Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then to him all these?read more.
And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house.

And he came out thence, and came to his native land; and his disciples follow him. And sabbath having come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing were struck with amazement, saying, Whence to this one these things? and what this wisdom given to him, that such powers are done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him.read more.
And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house.

Then came to Jesus from Jerusalem the scribes and Pharisees, saying, Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. And he, having answered, said to them, Wherefore do ye also pass by the command of God by your traditionread more.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die. And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me; And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition. Hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me. But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men. And having called the crowd, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand. Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man. Then his disciples having come near, said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were scandalized?

And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas? He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What seems to thee, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth take taxes or census? from their sons, or from strangers? Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then are the children free.read more.
But that we should not scandalize them, having gone to the sea, cast a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming up first, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a gold coin: having taken that, give to them for me and thee.

Then said Jesus to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink.read more.
He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, remains in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father: also he chewing me, the same also shall live through me. This is the bread which having come down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and died: he chewing this bread shall live forever. He said these, teaching in the synagogue, in Capernaum. Then many of his disciples, having heard, said, This is a hard word; who can hear it And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you? If then ye see the Son of man going up where he was before It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life. But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they are not believing, and who he is going to deliver him up. And he said, Therefore have I said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him of my Father. From this many of his disciples went away back, and walked no more with him.

And forgive to thy people who sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they transgressed against thee, and give them for compassion before those carrying them captive, and they compassionated them: For they thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron:

And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

If I sinned; and thou didst watch me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

How many iniquities and sins to me? make known to me my transgression and my sin.

For now thou wilt count my steps: wilt thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a purse, and thou wilt patch upon mine iniguity.

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more. Besides I shall see thou wilt teach it to me: if I did iniquity, I will not add. Is it with thee? he will requite it, if thou didst refuse, if thou shalt choose, and not I: and what thou knewest, speak.

For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah.

And see if the way of pain is in me, and guide me in the eternal way.

Thou broughtest not for me a buying with silver, thou didst not satiate me with the fat of thy sacrifices also thou causedst me to serve with thy sins, thou didst weary me with thine iniquities.

I wiped away as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn back to me for I redeemed thee.

For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted? I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if it shall be to you more to use this parable in Israel.read more.
Behold, all souls to me; behold, as the soul of the father, and so the soul of the son, they are to me. The soul sinning, it shall die. And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice, Not to eat upon the mountains, and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, and not to defile his neighbor's wife, and he shall not come near to a woman of uncleanness. And he shall not oppress a man; he shall turn back his pledge to the debtor; he will not strip off plunder, his bread he will give to him hungry, and the naked he will cover with a garment; And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man. In my laws he shall go and he watched my judgments to do the truth; he is just; living, he shall live, says the Lord Jehovah. And he begat a rapacious son, pouring out blood and doing the likeness of one of these. And he doing not all these, but eating upon the mountains and defiling his neighbor's wife, Oppressing the poor and needy, stripping off plunder, he will not turn back the pledge, and he lifted up his eyes to the blocks, doing abomination, Giving upon interest, and taking interest: and living, he shall not live: doing all these abominations, dying, he shall die; his bloods shall be upon him. And behold, he begat a son, and he will see all his father's sins which he did, and he will see and will not do like them; Not eating upon the mountains, and not lifting up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, not defiling his neighbor's wife, And not oppressing a man, not binding the pledge, and not stripping off plunder, giving his bread to him hungry, and clothing the naked with a garment Turning back his hand from the poor, taking not usury and interest, doing my judgment, going in my laws; he shall not die in the iniquity of his father; living, he shall live. His father because oppressing, he oppressed, stripping off, he stripped off the brother, and he did not good in the midst of my people, and behold him dying in his iniquity. And ye said, Why bore not the son upon the iniquity of the father? and the son doing judgment and justice, watching all my laws, and he will do them; living, he shall live. The soul sinning, it shall die. The son shall not bear for the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear for the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just one shall be upon him, and the injustice of the unjust one shall be upon him. And if the unjust one shall turn back from all his sins which he did, and he watched all my laws and did judgment and justice; living, he shall live; he shall not die. All his transgressions which he did shall not be remembered to him: in his justice which he did he shall live. Delighting, shall I delight in the death of the unjust one? says the Lord Jehovah: not in his turning back from his way and living? And in the just turning back from his justice, and doing iniquity according to all the abominations which the unjust one did, will he do and live? all his justices which he did shall not be remembered: in his transgression which he transgressed and in his sins which he sinned, in them he shall die. And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Hear ye now, O house of Israel; shall not my way make even? shall not your ways make hot even? In the turning back of the just one from his justice, and doing iniquity and dying in them; in his iniquity which he did he shall die. And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die. And the house of Israel said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Will not my ways make even, O house of Israel, shall not your way not make even? For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block. Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? For I shall not delight in the death of him dying, says the Lord Jehovah: and turn ye back and live.

And thou son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus ye said, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pining away in them, and how shall we live?

And they shall no more be defiled with their blocks and with their abominable things, and in all their transgressions: and I saved them from all their dwellings where they sinned in them, and I cleansed them: and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I did with them, and I will hide my face from them.

For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

And Jehovah will say to Aaron, Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the holy place: and thou and thy sons with thee, shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And it is the Levite serving the service of the tent of appointment, and they shall bear their iniquity a law forever to your generations, and in the midst of the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.

To whom shall I speak and testify, and they will hear? behold, their ear being uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah was to them for a reproach; they will not delight in it

And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom: And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God.

And I, brethren, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I. yet driven out? therefore the offence of the cross is left unemployed.

Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, and before the blind thou shalt not give a stumbling block, and thou shalt fear thy God: I Jehovah.

And having turned, he said to Peter, Retire behind me, Satan: thou art an offence, to me: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for booty, and for a stumblingblock, and for a retribution to them: Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always.

Their table shall be before them for a snare, for a retribution, for a cause of ruin. Their eyes shall be darkened from seeing, and cause their loins to waver always.

And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:

For a man, a man of the house of Israel, and of the stranger who shall sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate himself from after me, and shall bring up his blocks into his heart, and shall set the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet to seek out to him for me; I Jehovah will answer to him for me:

Son of man, these men brought up their blocks upon their heart, and they gave the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: shall I be sought out, shall I be sought oat for them? For this, speak to them and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: A man, a man of the house of Israel who shall bring up his blocks upon his heart, and shall set up the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet, I Jehovah answered to him coming according to the multitude of his blocks;

And in the just turning back from his justice and doing evil, and I gave a stumbling-block before his face, he shall die: for thou didst not admonish him, in his sins he shall die, and his justice shall not be remembered which he did; and his blood will I seek from thy hand.