12 Bible Verses about The Saints, Without Offence
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This way you may approve (test) the things that are excellent (of more value). May you be sincere and without offense (blameless) to others till the day of Christ.
If I say, I will speak thus; then, I would offend the generation of your children.
Let us not judge one another any more. Let no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
I exercise myself always, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.
If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom. If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to lose part of your body, than for your whole body to be destroyed in the ever-burning fire. (Figuratively: lose prospect for everlasting life; ever-burning fire means total destruction.)
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna) (spurious, but included in King James Version, Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.) If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is good for you to enter into life with only one foot, rather than having two feet to be cast into the ever-burning fires of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction)read more.
(The same wording as verse 44, spurious: Tischendorf's Spurious Passages) If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is good for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.
It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.
If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.
Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine you have learned and avoid them.
Moses asked Aaron: What did these people do to harm you? Why did you make them sin in this terrible way?
No, my sons. It is not a good report that I hear. You make Jehovah's people transgress.
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