Revelation 2:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

I have

Revelation 2:4

A stumbling-block

1 Peter 2:8

Eat

1 Corinthians 10:18

To commit

Hebrews 13:4

General references

1 Corinthians 10:8

Bible References

I have

But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first.

A stumbling-block

Alas for the world for such hindrances! They have to come, but alas for the man who causes them!

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

And David said, "Let their feasting prove a snare and a trap to them, Their ruin and their retribution.

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny.

Eat

But I hold it against you that you tolerate that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be inspired and who is misleading my slaves and teaching them to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have written them our decision that they must avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and immorality."

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

Think of the Israelites' practices. Do not those who eat what is sacrificed have divine fellowship at the sacrificial altar?

To commit

But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted??urderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

General references

Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day,