Quotes About Offense

Please forgive your servantís offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORDís battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.

I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

Suppose someone says to God, ëI have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A manís insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

Then the disciples came to Him and said, “Are You aware that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

Isnít this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Arenít His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.

Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?

as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.