Bible Verses About Offense
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for offense, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 54,042 votes, led by Proverbs 18:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Offense
Proverbs 18:191,911 votes
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs 19:111,741 votes
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Matthew 18:15-171,610 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:21-221,315 votes
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Matthew 18:71,260 votes
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!
Luke 17:3-41,182 votes
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
1 Peter 2:231,167 votes
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Proverbs 6:16-191,042 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
James 1:19956 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 3:16943 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Leviticus 19:18938 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 10:32909 votes
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
Ephesians 4:2-3886 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Psalms 119:165839 votes
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13814 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Matthew 7:1-5813 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Galatians 6:1-3805 votes
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Luke 17:1-2798 votes
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
Proverbs 27:5-6797 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Acts 24:16781 votes
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Psalms 55:12-15766 votes
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Ephesians 5:1-33755 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Revelation 1:1733 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Romans 16:17-18636 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
1 Corinthians 13:5597 votes
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
What does the Bible say about offense?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 18:19 on the subject of offense. Across 54,042 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 19:11, Matthew 18:15-17, Ecclesiastes 7:21-22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.