124 Bible verses about Offense, offending

When you face hurts, you can find real comfort and guidance in Scripture. God's word reminds us that He is our refuge and strength, especially when things get tough.

Facing hurts with humility and forgiveness can truly heal your wounds and restore relationships. Loving your neighbor is a fundamental command, and that includes loving your enemies and blessing those who persecute you. I know it's a challenge, but it's part of what God calls us to as His followers.

The Bible teaches us that offenses are just a part of life. But it also encourages us to handle them in a way that honors God and leads to reconciliation. In Matthew 18:21-22, Jesus gives us key instruction on forgiveness: "Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.’"

This passage tells me that Jesus wants us to have hearts that don't hold onto bitterness and resentment. He wants us to forgive others, just as our Heavenly Father has forgiven us.

For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Hear, our God for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!

neither will I cause thee to hear the ignominy of the nations any more, and thou shalt not bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to fall any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also doye.

And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,

but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

after this manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

Remember the wife of Lot.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

I say to you, In that night there shall be two men upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized and the other let go.

And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.

Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy testimonies.

Turn away my reproach which I fear; for thy judgments are good.

Judge not, that ye may not be judged;

and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?

If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.

For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.

But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?

So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.

A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.

Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

A wound and contempt shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

The vexation of the fool is presently known; but a prudent man covereth shame.

A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it would be only to do evil.

He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.

The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.

It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.

Blessed the peace-makers, for they shall be called sons of God.

And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god and speak monstrous things against the ·God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.

but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? until seven times?

Jesus says to him, I say not to thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven.

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

A furious man stirreth up contention; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing doth stumble them.

So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also doye.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.

Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

And as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner.

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

He that despiseth his neighbour is void of heart; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.

But I say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.

bless those that curse you; pray for those who use you despitefully.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;

having a good conscience, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation in Christ.

and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors,

By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you,

Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Let your gentleness be known of all men. The Lord is near.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

A gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a present in the bosom, vehement fury.

But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:

for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.

And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,

if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

neither give room for the devil.

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.

All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.

Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously;

A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise man keepeth it back.

When a man's ways please Jehovah, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word in its season, how good is it!

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