Biblical Concept: Offense
Findings:
Improper sacrifice
eating: “an offense”
“they offered a ram of the flock for their offense”
Re Jesus: “they
took offense at Him”
Paul: “I have
committed no offense”
“offense of Adam”
“a rock of
offense”
“eats and gives offense”
1 Corinthians 10:32 Give no
offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
Ministry: “giving
no cause for offense in anything”
“composure allays great offenses”
Improper sacrifice
eating: “an offensive thing”
Job: “My breath is
offensive to my wife”
“prophesied by Baal” … “an offensive thing”
Nebuchadnezzar:
“speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego
shall be torn
limb from limb”
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Offense
NAS Leviticus
19:7 'So if it is eaten at all on
the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted. (Improper sacrifice
eating: “an offense”)
19 And they pledged to put away
their wives, and being guilty, they
offered a ram of the flock for their offense. (“they offered a ram of the flock for their offense”)
NAS Matthew
13:57 And they took offense at
Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his
home town, and in his own household."
(Re Jesus: “they took offense at Him”)
NAS Matthew
17:27 "But, lest we give
them offense, go to the sea, and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that
comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater.
Take that and give it to them for you and Me."
NAS Mark 6:3 "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,
and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here
with us?" And they took offense at Him. (Re Jesus: “they took offense at
Him”)
NAS Acts
25:8 while Paul said in his own
defense, "I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews
or against the temple or against Caesar." (Paul: “I have committed no
offense”)
NAS Romans
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned
from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of
the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. (“offense of Adam”)
NAS Romans
9:33 just as it is written,
"Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed."
(“a rock of offense”)
NAS Romans
14:20 Do not tear down the work
of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for
the man who eats and gives offense. (“eats and gives offense”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 10:32 Give no offense
either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; (All)
NAS 2
Corinthians 6:3 giving no cause
for offense in anything, in order that the ministry be not discredited,
(Ministry: “giving no cause for offense in anything”)
NAS 1 Peter
2:8 and, "A stone of
stumbling and a rock of offense"; for they stumble because they are
disobedient to the word, and to this doom
they were also appointed. (“a rock of offense”)
Offenses
NAS Genesis
41:9 Then the chief cupbearer
spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I would make mention today of my own offenses.
NAS Ecclesiastes
10:4 If the ruler's temper rises
against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great
offenses. (“composure allays great offenses”)
Offensive
NAS Leviticus
7:18 'So if any of the flesh of
the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever
be eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, and it shall not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing,
and the person who eats of it shall bear his own iniquity. (Improper sacrifice eating: “an offensive thing”)
NAS Job
19:17 "My breath is
offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. (Job: “My breath
is offensive to my wife”)
NAS Jeremiah
23:13 "Moreover, among the
prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led
My people Israel astray. (“prophesied by Baal” … “an offensive thing”)
NAS Daniel
3:29 "Therefore, I make a
decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against
the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be
torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as
there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way."
(Nebuchadnezzar: “speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach,
Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb”)