Bible verses about "offense" | ACV

¹² For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him. ¹³ But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend. ¹⁴ We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng. ¹⁵ Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

⁵ Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

⁷ Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks. For it is necessary that the stumbling-blocks come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes.

¹⁶ And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always non-stumbling before God and men.

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. ² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma. ³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified, ⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead. ⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Do not become ye 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 Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹ And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them. ¹² For it is disgusting even to speak of the things happening by them secretly. ¹³ But all things exposed are revealed by the light, for everything that is seen is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and striking strings in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ expressing thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father, ²¹ submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ. ²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. ²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church, ³⁰ because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh. ³² This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church. ³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

¹ Do not criticize, that ye may not be criticized. ² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you. ³ And why do thou see the speck in thy brother's eye, but do not notice the beam in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how will thou say to thy brother, Let me take out the speck from thine eye, and behold, the beam in thine own eye? ⁵ Thou hypocrite, first take out the beam from thine own eye, and then thou will see clearly to take out the speck from thy brother's eye.

¹ And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted. ² Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ. ³ For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

¹⁸ Thou shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am LORD.

¹⁶ There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

² with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love. ³ Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up. ⁵ It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil, ⁶ does not rejoice in wrong but rejoices in the truth, ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished. ⁹ But we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I abolished the childish things. ¹² For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known. ¹³ And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

¹⁶ For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.

¹⁵ But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother. ¹⁶ But if he should not hear, take with thee one or two besides, so that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷ And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.

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

¹⁹ A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and such contentions are like the bars of a castle.

²¹ Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee. ²² For many times also thine own heart knows that thou thyself likewise have cursed others.

¹¹ The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.