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

Eat

1 Corinthians 10:18

To commit

Hebrews 13:4

General references

Deuteronomy 27:18

Isaiah 28:23

1 Corinthians 10:8

Bible References

I have

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

A stumbling-block

And it will be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
Remove every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.
And they will stumble against them,

Fathers and sons together;

Neighbor and friend will perish.”

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have

sworn against them,” declares the Lord God, “that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

“Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.

but we preach

Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

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.

Eat

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

but that we write to them that they abstain from

things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

To commit

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

‘Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my words.

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.