Bible verses about "offense" | ABU

⁷ Woe to the world, for causes of offense! For it must needs be that causes of offense come; but woe to that man, through whom the cause of offense comes!

¹⁶ Therefore do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

¹ BECOME therefore followers of God, as beloved children ² and walk in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell. ³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints, ⁴ and filthiness, and foolish talking, and jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For this ye know, being aware that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Become not therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,— ⁹ for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,— ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord; ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret. ¹³ But all things, when reproved, are by the light made manifest; for whatever makes manifest is light. ¹⁴ Wherefore he says: Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light. ¹⁵ See to it then, how ye walk with exactness, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things, to God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹ submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ; ²² wives to their own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ Because a husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; himself the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for it; ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bathing of water in the word, ²⁷ that he might himself present to himself the church, glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church; ³⁰ because we are members of his body, [being] of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church. ³³ Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

¹ JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. ² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you. ³ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine own eye? ⁵ Hypocrite! first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

²³ who when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed it to him who judges righteously;

¹ BRETHREN, even if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

¹ THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods in food, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, imputes no evil; ⁶ rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but whether there are prophesyings, they will be done away; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but now that I am become a man, I have done away the things of the child. ¹² For we see now in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know fully, even as I also am fully known. ¹³ And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

¹⁶ For where there is emulation and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.

² with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love; ³ endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹⁵ But if thy brother shall sin against thee, go show him his fault between thee and him alone, If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶ But if he hear not, take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷ And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he neglect to hear the church also, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.

³ Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. ⁴ And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn to thee saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.