Offence

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Matthew 18:7 NT

  “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

• 1 Corinthians 10:32 NT

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

• 2 Corinthians 6:3 NT

  We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

• Matthew 13:21 NT

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Matthew 24:10 NT

  Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

• Matthew 26:31 NT

  Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Isaiah 53:1-3 OT

  Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed? For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire…

• Matthew 13:54-57 NT

  Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works? Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his…

• Isaiah 8:14 OT

  He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

• Romans 9:33 NT

  even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

• 1 Peter 2:8 NT

  and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

• John 6:58-61 NT

  This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.” He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of his disciples, when…

• 1 Corinthians 1:23 NT

  but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

• Galatians 5:11 NT

  But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

• Romans 9:32 NT

  Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

• Matthew 15:11 NT

  That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

• Matthew 15:12 NT

  Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

• Matthew 11:6 NT

  Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

• John 16:1 NT

  “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

• Philippians 1:10 NT

  so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

• Psalms 73:15 OT

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Romans 14:13 NT

  Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

• 1 Corinthians 8:9 NT

  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

• Acts 24:16 NT

  In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.