Bible Verses About Offence

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

`Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

then saith Jesus to them, `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

`And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable--

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

`And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable--

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire--

this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live--to the age.'

These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?

`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

wherefore? because--not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

also we--we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;