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 against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

A stumbling-block

And it shall be said, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall over them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and were unto the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity.

Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness;

But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.

Eat

But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices.

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

But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

To commit

But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

General references

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way! And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.