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

Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.

A stumbling-block

And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way. Take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which h

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says lord LORD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks. For it is necessary that the stumbling-blocks come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes.

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

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

Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.

but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

Eat

Nevertheless, I have against thee that thou tolerate thy woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my bondmen to fornicate, and to eat idol sacrifices.

but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

And about the Gentiles who have believed, we sent word, having decided for them to keep no such thing, except for them to guard against what is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?

To commit

But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

General references

Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Give ye ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.