(NIV)
To Sarah he said, ‘I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offence against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.’
To Sarah he
said, “Behold, I have
given your
brother a
thousand pieces of
silver.
It is a sign of your
innocence in the
eyes of
all who are
with you, and before
everyone you are
vindicated.”
(NIV)
One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offence they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
“A
single witness shall
not suffice against a
person for
any crime or for
any wrong in connection with
any offense that he has
committed.
Only
on the
evidence of
two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a
charge be
established.
(NIV)
If someone guilty of a capital offence is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,
“And
if a
man has committed a
crime punishable by
death and he is
put to death, and you
hang him
on a
tree,
(NIV)
Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, ‘Am I a dog’s head – on Judah’s side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven’t handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offence involving this woman!
Then
Abner was
very angry over the
words of
Ish-bosheth and
said, “Am I a
dog’s head of
Judah? To this
day I
keep showing steadfast love to the
house of
Saul your
father,
to his
brothers, and
to his
friends, and have
not given you
into the
hand of
David. And yet you
charge me
today with a
fault concerning a
woman.
(NIV)
if I sinned, you would be watching me
and would not let my offence go unpunished.
If I
sin, you
watch me
and do
not acquit me of my
iniquity.
(NIV)
How many wrongs and sins have I committed?
Show me my offence and my sin.
How many are my
iniquities and my
sins?
Make
me know my
transgression and my
sin.
(NIV)
See how they lie in wait for me!
Fierce men conspire against me
for no offence or sin of mine,
Lord.
For behold, they lie in
wait for my
life;
fierce men stir up
strife against me.
For
no transgression or
sin of mine, O
Lord,
(NIV)
Whoever would foster love covers over an offence,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
Whoever
covers an
offense seeks love,
but he who
repeats a
matter separates close friends.
(NIV)
A person’s wisdom yields patience;
it is to one’s glory to overlook an offence.
Good sense makes
one slow to
anger,
and it is his
glory to
overlook an
offense.
(NIV)
I will make them abhorrent and an offence to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.
I will
make them a
horror to
all the
kingdoms of the
earth, to be a
reproach,
a
byword,
a
taunt, and a
curse in
all the
places where I shall
drive them.
(NIV)
In you one man commits a detestable offence with his neighbour’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
One commits abomination with his
neighbor’s wife;
another lewdly defiles his
daughter-in-law;
another in
you violates his
sister, his
father’s daughter.
(NIV)
And they took offence at him.
But Jesus said to them,
‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own town and in his own home.’And they
took offense at him.
But Jesus said to
them,
“A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
(NIV)
‘But so that we may not cause offence, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.’
(ESV)
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
(NIV)
Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?’ And they took offence at him.
Is not this the
carpenter, the
son of
Mary and brother of
James and Joses and Judas and Simon?
And are not his sisters here with us?”
And they
took offense at him.
(NIV)
Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offence of the cross has been abolished.
But if I,
brothers,
still preach circumcision,
why am I
still being
persecuted? In that
case the
offense of the
cross has been
removed.
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