Bible Verses About Offence

and whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust me, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the open sea!

Woe to the world because of snares! For there must be snares, but woe to the person who sets the snare!

At that time many will be trapped into betraying and hating each other,

Yeshua then said to them, "Tonight you will all lose faith in me, as the Tanakh says, `I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

"Whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust me -- it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown in the sea.

If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to Gei-Hinnom, to unquenchable fire!

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

And if your foot makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be lame but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both feet and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom!

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

And if your eye makes you sin, pluck it out! Better that you should be one-eyed but enter the Kingdom of God, rather than keep both eyes and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom,

So this is the bread that has come down from heaven — it is not like the bread the fathers ate; they’re dead, but whoever eats this bread will live forever!”

He said these things as he was teaching in a synagogue in K’far-Nachum.

On hearing it, many of his talmidim said, “This is a hard word — who can bear to listen to it?”

But Yeshua, aware that his talmidim were grumbling about this, said to them, “This is a trap for you?

“I have told you these things so that you won’t be caught by surprise.

Indeed, it is because of this that I make a point of always having a clear conscience in the sight of both God and man.

Why? Because they did not pursue righteousness as being grounded in trusting but as if it were grounded in doing legalistic works. They stumbled over the stone that makes people stumble.

As the Tanakh puts it, “Look, I am laying in Tziyon a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will trip them up. But he who rests his trust on it will not be humiliated.”

Therefore, let’s stop passing judgment on each other! Instead, make this one judgment — not to put a stumbling block or a snare in a brother’s way.

What is good is not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put snares alongside the teaching in which you have been trained — keep away from them.

we go on proclaiming a Messiah executed on a stake as a criminal! To Jews this is an obstacle, and to Greeks it is nonsense;

However watch out that your mastery of the situation does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

To sum up, if food will be a snare for my brother, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to sin.

Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God’s Messianic Community.