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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.
Christ didn’t please himself, but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insulted you fell on me.”
Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift at the altar and go. First make things right with your brother or sister and then come back and offer your gift.
Listen, God; we are despised! Turn their insults to us back on their heads and make them like plunder in a captive land.
You won’t have to listen anymore to the taunts of the nations or endure the scorn of the peoples. And you will no longer deprive your nation of anything. This is what the LORD God says.
Be kind, compassionate, and forgiving to each other, in the same way God forgave you in Christ.
Their mouths are filled with curses, dishonesty, violence. Under their tongues lie troublemaking and wrongdoing.
Be tolerant with each other and, if someone has a complaint against anyone, forgive each other. As the Lord forgave you, so also forgive each other.
Just then, Jacob’s sons got back from the countryside. When they heard what had happened, they were deeply offended and very angry, because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter. Such things are simply not done.
David asked the soldiers standing by him, “What will be done for the person who kills that Philistine over there and removes this insult from Israel? Who is that uncircumcised Philistine, anyway, that he can get away with insulting the army of the living God?”
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Bless the LORD, who has rendered a verdict regarding Nabal’s insult to me and who kept me, his servant, from doing something evil! The LORD has brought Nabal’s evil down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, saying that he would take her as his wife.
With my bones crushed, my foes make fun of me, constantly questioning me: “Where’s your God now?”
“If your brother or sister sins against you, go and correct them when you are alone together. If they listen to you, then you’ve won over your brother or sister.
You sit around, talking about your own siblings; you find fault with the children of your very own mother.
Don’t pay back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, give blessing in return. You were called to do this so that you might inherit a blessing.
Because passion for your house has consumed me, the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me!
You know full well the insults I’ve received; you know my shame and my disgrace. All my adversaries are right there in front of you.
“If you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if you don’t forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your sins.
So stop judging each other. Instead, this is what you should decide: never put a stumbling block or obstacle in the way of your brother or sister.
Insults have broken my heart. I’m sick about it. I hoped for sympathy, but there wasn’t any; I hoped for comforters, but couldn’t find any.
Watch yourselves! If your brother or sister sins, warn them to stop. If they change their hearts and lives, forgive them.Even if someone sins against you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times and says, ‘I am changing my ways,’ you must forgive that person.”
Pay back our neighbors seven times over, right where it hurts, for the insults they used on you, Lord.
Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to grow angry.This is because an angry person doesn’t produce God’s righteousness.
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.You’ll receive the same judgment you give. Whatever you deal out will be dealt out to you.
It’s a good thing not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that trips your brother or sister.
If a man divorces his wife, and after she leaves him marries another, can he return to her again? Wouldn’t such an act completely corrupt the land? Yet you have prostituted yourself with many lovers. Would you return to me? declares the LORD.
“The king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt himself, making himself greater than any god. He will say unbelievable things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the doom is completed, because what is decreed must take place.
I have heard the taunting of Moab and the defamation of the Ammonites; they taunted my people and enlarged their borders.
Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He’s insulting God! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, you’ve heard his insult against God.
Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves.Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others.
Above all, show sincere love to each other, because love brings about the forgiveness of many sins.
The Jewish opposition answered, “We don’t stone you for a good work but for insulting God. You are human, yet you make yourself out to be God.”
Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, how many times should I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Should I forgive as many as seven times?”Jesus said, “Not just seven times, but rather as many as seventy-seven times.
Put aside all bitterness, losing your temper, anger, shouting, and slander, along with every other evil.
The people who love your Instruction enjoy peace—and lots of it. There’s no stumbling for them!
So let’s strive for the things that bring peace and the things that build each other up.
it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints,
Therefore, as God’s choice, holy and loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.Be tolerant with each other and, if someone has a complaint against anyone, forgive each other. As the Lord forgave you, so also forgive each other.
The start of a quarrel is like letting out water, so drop the dispute before it breaks out.
Therefore, you should treat people in the same way that you want people to treat you; this is the Law and the Prophets.
But if you bite and devour each other, be careful that you don’t get eaten up by each other!
Live your life with love, following the example of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. He was a sacrificial offering that smelled sweet to God.
Pursue the goal of peace along with everyone—and holiness as well, because no one will see the Lord without it.
Make sure no one repays a wrong with a wrong, but always pursue the good for each other and everyone else.
God’s slave shouldn’t be argumentative but should be kind toward all people, able to teach, patient,
Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love.
We who are powerful need to be patient with the weakness of those who don’t have power, and not please ourselves.Each of us should please our neighbors for their good in order to build them up.
What of the wisdom from above? First, it is pure, and then peaceful, gentle, obedient, filled with mercy and good actions, fair, and genuine.Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.
Don’t pay back anyone for their evil actions with evil actions, but show respect for what everyone else believes is good.If possible, to the best of your ability, live at peace with all people.Don’t try to get revenge for yourselves, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath. It is written, “Revenge belongs to me; I will pay it back, says the Lord”.
An offended ally is more formidable than a city; such quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
“You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.But I say to you that you must not oppose those who want to hurt you. If people slap you on your right cheek, you must turn the left cheek to them as well.
Don’t say, “I’ll do to them what they did to me. I’ll pay them back for their actions.”
Don’t let any foul words come out of your mouth. Only say what is helpful when it is needed for building up the community so that it benefits those who hear what you say.
Instead, regard Christ the Lord as holy in your hearts. Whenever anyone asks you to speak of your hope, be ready to defend it.Yet do this with respectful humility, maintaining a good conscience. Act in this way so that those who malign your good lifestyle in Christ may be ashamed when they slander you.
Forgive us for the ways we have wronged you, just as we also forgive those who have wronged us.
Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person.
Brothers and sisters, if a person is caught doing something wrong, you who are spiritual should restore someone like this with a spirit of gentleness. Watch out for yourselves so you won’t be tempted too.
If you forgive anyone for anything, I do too. And whatever I’ve forgiven (if I’ve forgiven anything), I did it for you in the presence of Christ.This is so that we won’t be taken advantage of by Satan, because we are well aware of his schemes.
If those who claim devotion to God don’t control what they say, they mislead themselves. Their devotion is worthless.
Better to be patient than a warrior, and better to have self-control than to capture a city.
For “those who want to love life ” “and see good days ” “should keep their tongue from evil speaking ” “and their lips from speaking lies. ”“They should shun evil and do good; ” “seek peace and chase after it. ”
The LORD is compassionate and merciful, very patient, and full of faithful love.God won’t always play the judge; he won’t be angry forever.He doesn’t deal with us according to our sin or repay us according to our wrongdoing,
How terrible it is for the world because of the things that cause people to trip and fall into sin! Such things have to happen, but how terrible it is for the person who causes those things to happen!
Welcome the person who is weak in faith—but not in order to argue about differences of opinion.
But watch out or else this freedom of yours might be a problem for those who are weak.
Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause people to trip and fall into sin must happen, but how terrible it is for the person through whom they happen.
This is why, if food causes the downfall of my brother or sister, I won’t eat meat ever again, or else I may cause my brother or sister to fall.
“As for whoever causes these little ones who believe in me to trip and fall into sin, it would be better for them to have a huge stone hung around their necks and be drowned in the bottom of the lake.
Angry people must pay the penalty; if you rescue them, then you will have to do it again.
I tell you that people will have to answer on Judgment Day for every useless word they speak.By your words you will be either judged innocent or condemned as guilty.”
The fact that you have lawsuits against each other means that you’ve already lost your case. Why not be wronged instead? Why not be cheated?But instead you are doing wrong and cheating—and you’re doing it to your own brothers and sisters.
As for parents, don’t provoke your children to anger, but raise them with discipline and instruction about the Lord.
“Happy are you when people insult you and harass you and speak all kinds of bad and false things about you, all because of me.
Don’t complain about each other, brothers and sisters, so that you won’t be judged. Look! The judge is standing at the door!
Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love,and make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together.
Everything is permitted, but everything isn’t beneficial. Everything is permitted, but everything doesn’t build others up.No one should look out for their own advantage, but they should look out for each other.
But why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you look down on your brother or sister? We all will stand in front of the judgment seat of God.
When he was insulted, he did not reply with insults. When he suffered, he did not threaten revenge. Instead, he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
Love each other like the members of your family. Be the best at showing honor to each other.
“I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other.This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.”
The person loving a brother and sister stays in the light, and there is nothing in the light that causes a person to stumble.