Offense
43 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
32 sections
- Aaron
- All Things That Cause, Shall be Gathered out of Christ's
- Balaam
- Blessedness of not Taking, at Christ
- Denunciation Against Those Who Cause
- Gideon
- Jeroboam
- Ministers should be Cautious of Giving
- Ministers should Remove That Which Causes
- Occasions of, Forbidden
- Occasions of, Must Arrive
- Old Prophet
- Persecution, a Cause of, to Mere Professors
- Peter
- Priests
- Punishment for Occasioning
- Saints should Avoid Those Who Cause
- Saints should be Cautious of Giving
- Saints should be Without
- Saints should Cut off What Causes, to Themselves
- Saints should Have a Conscience Void of
- Saints should not Let Their Liberty Occasion, to Others
- Saints should Reprove Those Who Cause
- Saints should Use Self-Denial Rather than Occasion
- Saints Warned Against Taking
- Sons of Eli
- The Wicked Take, At: Christ Crucified
- The Wicked Take, At: Christ, As the Bread of Life
- The Wicked Take, At: Christ, As the Corner-Stone
- The Wicked Take, At: The Low Station of Christ
- The Wicked Take, At: The Necessity of Inward Purity
- The Wicked Take, At: The Righteousness of Faith
Aaron
- Exodus 32:2–6 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” …
All Things That Cause, Shall be Gathered out of Christ's
- Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
Balaam
- Numbers 31:16 “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
Blessedness of not Taking, at Christ
- Matthew 11:6 Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
Denunciation Against Those Who Cause
- Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
- Mark 9:42 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
Gideon
- Judges 8:27 From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
Jeroboam
- 1 Kings 12:26–30 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David. …
Ministers should be Cautious of Giving
- 2 Corinthians 6:3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
Ministers should Remove That Which Causes
- Isaiah 57:14 And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
Occasions of, Forbidden
- 1 Corinthians 10:32 Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
- 2 Corinthians 6:3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
Occasions of, Must Arrive
- Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
Old Prophet
- 1 Kings 13:18–26 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him, …
Persecution, a Cause of, to Mere Professors
- Matthew 13:21 But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
- Matthew 24:10 At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
- Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Peter
- Matthew 16:23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Priests
- Malachi 2:8 But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Punishment for Occasioning
- Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares …
- Malachi 2:8–9 But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts. …
- Matthew 18:6–7 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. …
Saints should Avoid Those Who Cause
- Romans 16:17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
Saints should be Cautious of Giving
- Psalm 73:15 If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
- Romans 14:13 Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
- 1 Corinthians 8:9 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
Saints should be Without
- Philippians 1:10 so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Saints should Cut off What Causes, to Themselves
- Matthew 5:29–30 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. …
- Mark 9:43–47 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. …
Saints should Have a Conscience Void of
- Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
Saints should not Let Their Liberty Occasion, to Others
- 1 Corinthians 8:9 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
Saints should Reprove Those Who Cause
- Exodus 32:21 “What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
- 1 Samuel 2:24 No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
Saints should Use Self-Denial Rather than Occasion
- Romans 14:21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
Saints Warned Against Taking
- John 16:1 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
Sons of Eli
- 1 Samuel 2:12–17 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD …
The Wicked Take, At: Christ Crucified
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
- Galatians 5:11 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.
The Wicked Take, At: Christ, As the Bread of Life
- John 6:58–61 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.” …
The Wicked Take, At: Christ, As the Corner-Stone
- Isaiah 8:14 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.
- Romans 9:33 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.”
- 1 Peter 2:8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word— and to this they were appointed.
The Wicked Take, At: The Low Station of Christ
- Isaiah 53:1–3 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? …
- Matthew 13:54–57 Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked. …
The Wicked Take, At: The Necessity of Inward Purity
- Matthew 15:11–12 A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.” …
The Wicked Take, At: The Righteousness of Faith
- Romans 9:32 Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.