Deuteronomy 22:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

While these things were taking place, David happened to arise from his bed after midday, and he walked upon the terrace of the king's house. And he saw, across from his terrace, a woman washing herself. And the woman was very beautiful.

Exodus 22:6

If a fire will have been discovered departing from brush, and taking hold in stacks of grain, or in crops standing in the fields, whoever ignited the fire shall repay the damages.

Isaiah 22:1

The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean, just like the place of Topheth: all the houses on whose roofs they sacrificed to all the armies of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods."

Ezekiel 3:18

If, when I say to the impious man, 'You shall certainly die,' you do not announce it to him, and you do not speak so that he may turn aside from his impious way and live, then the same impious man will die in his iniquity. But I will attribute his blood to your hand.

Ezekiel 3:20

Moreover, if the just man turns aside from his justice and commits iniquity, I will place a stumbling block before him. He shall die, because you have not announced to him. He shall die in his sin, and his justices that he did shall not be remembered. Yet truly, I will attribute his blood to your hand.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light. And what you hear whispered in the ear, preach above the rooftops.

Mark 2:4

And when they were not able to present him to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And opening it, they lowered down the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.

Acts 10:9

Then, on the following day, while they were making the journey and approaching the city, Peter ascended to the upper rooms, so that he might pray, at about the sixth hour.

Romans 14:13

Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Be without offense toward the Jews, and toward the Gentiles, and toward the Church of God,

Deuteronomy 22:7

Instead, you shall permit her to go, retaining the young that you have caught, so that it may be well with you, and you may live for a long time.

Deuteronomy 22:9

You shall not sow your vineyard with another seed, lest both the seed that you have sown and what springs forth from the vineyard be sanctified together.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may be confirmed in what is better, in order that you may be sincere and without offense on the day of Christ:

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from every kind of evil.

1 Samuel 9:25

And they descended from the high place into the town, and he spoke with Saul in the upper room. And he set out a bed for Saul in the upper room, and he slept.