Bible Verses About Offence

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

Then Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehinnom, into the unquenchable fire,

‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehinnom, into the fire that will never be quenched—

‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehinnom of fire,

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

But Yeshua knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

but we proclaim Messiah crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;