15 Bible Verses about Offence

So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

And many will be repelled then, they will betray one another and hate one another.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all be disconcerted over me to-night, for it is written, I will strike at the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited;

Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

and went to his native place, where he taught the people in the synagogue till they were astounded. They said, "Where did he get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? Are not his sisters settled here among us? Then where has he got all this?" read more.
So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

And whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea.

Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but ??woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited;

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth." Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?"

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna. And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

the Son of man will despatch his angels, and they will gather out of his Realm all who are hindrances and who practise iniquity,

Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever." This he said as he taught in the synagogue at Capharnahum. Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?" read more.
Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you?

Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but ??woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled.