15 Bible Verses about Offence

So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

Then Jesus said to them. "This very night even you will all stumble and fall away from me; for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

"But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls.

I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited;

Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

But I, brothers, if I "still preach circumcision," why am I still persecuted? Then surely the stumbling-block of the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle!

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

and came into his own country, where he continued teaching the people in their synagogues, until they were amazed. "Where did he get such wisdom?" they said, "and such wondrous powers? "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? "Are not his sisters all living among us? Where, then, did he get all these powers?" read more.
This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

"And if any one shall cause one of these little ones who believe on me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown out into the sea with a great millstone about his neck.

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited;

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

"Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man." Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.

for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit. And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

But he turned and said to Peter. "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, because you are not intent on what pleases God, but what pleases men."

"The son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all hindrances, and whoever practices iniquity,

"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever." He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum. So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?" read more.
Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

"And blessed is the man who finds no cause of stumbling in me."

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

"Hence I too endeavor to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway.

"I have told you all this so that you may not stumble.