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.”

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

‘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.’

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.”

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.

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.