But I clearly foresaw when we married that we should scandalize a good many of the weaker brethren.
The porter was turned away by Brother Elias, and was puzzled what reply to give the stranger, not to scandalize him, and not to say what was untrue.
He took nothing from the many thousands whom he baptized, and often gave back the little presents which some laid on the altar, choosing rather to mortify the fervent than to scandalize the weak or the infidels.
I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.
Further, whatever may tend to scandalize and disturb others, is not necessary for salvation, for the Apostle says (1 Cor.
He that shallscandalize one of these little ones," says: "Observe that it is the little one that is scandalized, for the elders do not take scandal.
He that shall scandalize one of these little ones, that believe in Me, it were better for him that a mill-stone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Now it is sinful to forsake the good of virtue, as likewise to scandalize one's brethren.
You shall see my hair after supper, as I don't want to scandalize the countrywoman.
However, I will not shew her this portrait, which would scandalize her; I will put it away carefully.
At all events," she concluded, "I hope to find myself in a few months in a position which will scandalize the convent if they are obstinately bent upon keeping me here.
If thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.
Hence he maintained that after the Passion the apostles never observed the legal ceremonies in real earnest; but only by a kind of pious pretense, lest, to wit, they should scandalize the Jews and hinder their conversion.
But he did sin by excessive minuteness in the observance of the legal rites lest he should scandalize the Jews, the result being that he gave scandal to the Gentiles.
And if we would not scandalize them, we must do that which is just, and not by our practice hide the sound doctrine, which is contrary to their separating error.
If meatscandalize my brother;" our translators have turned it, "If meat make my brother to offend.
We scandalize them and others, even by pleasing them, and by avoiding that which they falsely called scandalous.
And all these ways a man may sinfullyscandalize another.
And first, to scandalize is used actively in these following texts: in Matt.
Though I should scandalize this company, 35 You will excuse me if I do not talk In the high style which they think fashionable; My pathos certainly would make You laugh too, Had You not long since given over laughing.
This saying ought not to scandalize even the most devout theist.
A short time ago a reply that I made to those who reproached us Spaniards for our scientific incapacity appeared to scandalize some people.
Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.
And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter lame into life everlasting than having two feet to be cast into the hell of unquenchable fire: 9:45.
And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.
And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire: 9:47.
I will not scandalize you and recount How matters made the morning pass away.
But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?
And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.
And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell.
And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.
And if thy eyescandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee.
A person may be said to scandalize himself in the sense that by his looks or acts he puts himself in an occasion of sin (Matt.
It should be noted that it is not hypocrisy for a just cause to conceal one's sin by dissimulation; indeed, Isaias severely blames those who scandalize others by flaunting their wickedness before the public (Is, iii.
They should be trained from their earliest years to reserve and decency, and it is a most serious sin to scandalize their innocence.
Is it possible to scandalize people who are firmly rooted in virtue?
This sin is usually less than braggadocio, since as a rule its purpose is to avoid offense to others; but it may be serious sin on account of some circumstance, as when one speaks ill of self in order to scandalize or seduce another.
Hence, one should conceal or delay the performance of good works that are not necessary, if they would scandalize the weak, or else one should explain to these persons the righteousness of such works.
Vicar, says he, for shame give o'er And mitigate your rage; You scandalize your cloth too much A cobbler to engage.
Her satire, and most of her metaphor if always set down as she phrased it, wouldscandalize as well as puzzle Western ears.
But Tess discovered when the day came that no American can scandalize the English.
Ma heart's no' so saft as to permit a bit dog to scandalizethe deid.
They had learned to play there like two well-brought-up children, in pantomime, so as not to scandalize pious countryfolk.
To propose to bury a dog in the historic churchyard would scandalize the city.
Nathan, with a melancholy shake of the head; "thee would not have me back in the Settlements, to scandalize them that is of my faith?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scandalize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
