Bible Verses About Offence: Persecution, a cause of, to mere professors

Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Then saide Iesus vnto them, All yee shall be offended by me this night: for it is written, I wil smite the shepheard, and the sheepe of the flocke shalbe scattered.