'Offense' in the Bible

But so that we do not give offense to them, go out to the sea, cast [a line with] a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And [when you] open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that [and] give [it] to them for me and you."

{Give no offense} both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],

and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble [because they] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.