'Offense' in the Bible

Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What [is] my offense? What [is] my sin that you pursued after me?

{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict} [with respect to] any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the {evidence} of two witnesses or on the {evidence} of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.

then it will happen if the guilty [one] {deserves beating}, then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him {before him}, {according to} {the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense}.

for that [is] a shameful act, and that [is] {a criminal offense}.

The understanding of a person makes him slow to his {anger}, and his glory overlooks offense.

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.