Revelation 2:14

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Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

2 Peter 2:15

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

Acts 15:29

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

Matthew 18:7

Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

Acts 15:20-21

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

Acts 21:25

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

Romans 9:32

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'

Romans 11:9

David, too, says--'May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them--a hindrance and a retribution;

Romans 14:13

Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

1 Corinthians 1:23

We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

1 Corinthians 8:4-13

With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware 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 share with the altar?

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

1 Peter 2:8

and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

Revelation 2:4

But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Revelation 22:15

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

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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

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 this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

A stumbling-block

Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'

David, too, says--'May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them--a hindrance and a retribution;

Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way.

We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.

Eat

Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware 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 share with the altar?

To commit

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

General references

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.