Character & Virtues

Bible Verses About offense

14 key scriptures

Discover 14 powerful Bible verses about offense. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential character & virtues topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: Proverbs 18:19
King James (KJV)A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

14 Key Scriptures

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. discretion: or, prudence
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: take: Heb. give not thine heart
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!
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: himself: or, his cause
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: unto: Heb. of his soul
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. confusion: Gr. tumult or unquietness
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: Gentiles: Gr. Greeks
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. nothing: Heb. they shall have no stumblingblock

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