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

A stumbling-block

Alas for the world because of snares! for it is necessary that snares come: but alas for that man by whom the snare comes!

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;

Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother's way.

but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:

But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense to the disobedient, who stumble at the word because they are disobedient, to which stumbling they were also appointed.

Eat

But I have against you that you suffer that woman Jezebel, who calls her self a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my servants to practice lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers with the altar?

To commit

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers and lewd persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

With out are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thou sand.