Bible Verses About Offense

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

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

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them .

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

And be ye kind one to another , tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.