15 Bible Verses about Offence

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement--that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, 'I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.'

It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

in agreement with the statement of Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a stone for people to stumble at, and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose faith rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed."

and "a Stone for the foot to strike against, and a Rock to stumble over." Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.

while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!

The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

And He came into His own country and proceeded to teach in their synagogue, so that they were filled with astonishment and exclaimed, "Where did he obtain such wisdom, and these wondrous powers? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah? And his sisters--are they not all living here among us? Where then did he get all this?" read more.
So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them, "There is no prophet left without honour except in his own country and among his own family."

Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

"Alas for the world because of causes of falling! They cannot but come, but alas for each man through whom they come!

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man." Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?"

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna. And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should go into Gehenna.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Adversary; you are a hindrance to me, because your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever." Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum. Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?" read more.
But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them,

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

and blessed is every one who does not stumble and fall because of my claims."

"Alas for the world because of causes of falling! They cannot but come, but alas for each man through whom they come!

And why? Because they were pursuing a righteousness which should arise not from faith, but from what they regarded as merit. They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way;

This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.

"These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.