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

To commit

Hebrews 13:4

General references

1 Corinthians 10:8

Bible References

I have

But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.

A stumbling-block

Woe unto the world on account of offensives, for it is necessary that offensives come; but woe unto that man through whom the offense comes!

Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

Then let us no longer judge one another: but rather judge this, not to place before a brother an offence for a stumblingblock.

but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness;

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.

who stumble over the word, disbelieving: unto which they indeed were appointed.

Eat

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who says herself to be a prophet, and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication, and to cat things sacrificed to idols.

but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one.

See Israel after the flesh: are not all eating the sacrifices communicants of the altar?

To commit

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, shall be their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and harlots, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one doing and loving falsehood.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

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

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

General references

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