15 Bible Verses about Offence

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all desert me tonight, for the Scriptures say, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

but it takes no real root in him, and lasts only a little while, and when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, he gives it up at once.

I put no obstacles in anyone's path, so that no fault may be found with my work.

You must not be hindrances to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God either,

as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny.

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

And I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that is the case, the cross has ceased to be an obstacle, I suppose!

The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders? Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? And do not all his sisters live here among us? Then where did he get all this?" read more.
And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and at his home."

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

And whoever causes one of these humble believers to fall might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

Alas for the world for such hindrances! They have to come, but alas for the man who causes them!

I put no obstacles in anyone's path, so that no fault may be found with my work.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

"Listen to this, and grasp it! It is not what goes into a man's mouth that pollutes him; it is what comes out of his mouth that pollutes a man." Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?"

so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ,

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit! If your right hand makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all go down to the pit!

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!"

the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and the wrongdoers

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever." Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?" read more.
But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you?

I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.

And blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in me."

Alas for the world for such hindrances! They have to come, but alas for the man who causes them!

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.

"I have told you this to keep you from faltering.