Bible verses about "offense" | Riverside

⁷ Alas for the world because of the occasions of stumbling! It must be that such occasions come, but alas for the man through whom any one is tripped up!

¹⁶ And in this I take pains, to have always a clear conscience toward God and toward men.

¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger.

¹ BE imitators of God as beloved children ² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor. ³ Unchastity or any kind of impurity or greediness must not be mentioned among you, as befits holy people; ⁴ nor should there be indecent and foolish talk or jesting, which are unbecoming, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For you know well that no unchaste or impure person, no greedy person — who is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Do not, then, be partakers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light — ⁹ for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth — ¹⁰ testing what is pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, ¹² for the things that they do in secret it is shameful even to speak of. ¹³ But all things when reproved are shown truly by the light, for everything shown truly is light. ¹⁴ Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light." ¹⁵ Be strictly careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise. ¹⁶ Buy up the opportunity, because these are evil days. ¹⁷ Therefore do not be thoughtless, but understand what is the Lord's will. ¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing the harp heartily to the Lord, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. ²¹ Be subject to one another in reverence for Christ, ²² wives to their own husbands as in the Lord, ²³ because a man is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless. ²⁸ Thus ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. ³² "This mystery is great, but I am speaking of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his own wife as himself, and the wife must reverence her husband.

¹ "DO not judge, so that you may not be judged. ² For with whatever judgment you judge you will be judged, and with whatever measure you measure you will be measured. ³ Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, while you do not perceive the beam in your own eye? ⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, 'Let me get out the speck from your eye,' when there is a beam in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first get the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

¹ BRETHREN, if a man is surprised in some sin, you who are spiritual are to restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each looking out for himself to avoid being tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ If any one thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

¹ IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have the power of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I distribute all that I have to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited, ⁵ does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs, ⁶ does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes what is in part will become useless. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Since I have become a man, I have no use for childish things. ¹² For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known. ¹³ But now faith, hope, love — these three — endure. And the greatest of these is love.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and party-spirit are, there is confusion and every base affair.

² with all modesty and gentleness, being slow to anger, bearing with one another in love, ³ earnest in keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault between yourself and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. ¹⁶ If he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or three, every word may be confirmed. ¹⁷ If he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

³ "Be on your guard. If your brother sins against you, reprove him, and if he changes his mind, forgive him. ⁴ Even if seven times in the day he sins against you and seven times turns to you, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."