Revelation 2:14

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Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

2 Peter 2:15

They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

Numbers 31:16

“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.

Farewell.

Numbers 24:14

Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

Numbers 25:1-3

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Numbers 31:8

Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

Joshua 24:9

Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

Isaiah 57:14

He said,
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;
friends and neighbors will also perish.

Ezekiel 3:20

Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to the house of Israel before their idols and became a sinful stumbling block to them, therefore I swore an oath against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“that they would bear the consequences of their sin.

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

Acts 15:20-21

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Acts 21:25

With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Romans 9:32

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

Romans 11:9

And David says:

Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.

Romans 14:13

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

Romans 14:21

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 10:18-31

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

1 Peter 2:8

and

A stone to stumble over,
and a rock to trip over.

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

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

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Summary

Revelation 2:14

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: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

A stumbling-block

He said,
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;
fathers and sons together will stumble over them;
friends and neighbors will also perish.

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

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

And David says:

Let their feasting

become a snare and a trap,

a pitfall and a retribution to them.

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

and

A stone to stumble over,

and a rock to trip over.

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.

Eat

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in what is offered on the altar?

To commit

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

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

But because sexual immorality is so common,

each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

General references

‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.