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 that thou hast left thy first love, charity.

A stumbling-block

And shall say, Clear away, clear away, level the way, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Again, When the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die because thou hast not given him warning; he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at thy hand.

Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand regarding them, said the Lord GOD, that they shall bear their iniquity.

Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

Why? Because they followed it not by faith but, as it were, by the works (of the law); therefore, they stumbled on the stumblingstone;

And David says, Let their table be turned into a snare and a net and a stumblingblock and a recompense unto them;

Let us, therefore, not judge one another any more, but judge this rather: that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

but we preach Christ crucified, , unto the Jews a stumblingblock and unto the Gentiles foolishness;

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumblingblock to those that are weak.

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to those who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.

Eat

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (who calls herself a prophetess) to teach and to seduce my slaves to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood and from that which has been strangled and from fornication.

As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices participants of the altar?

To commit

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

But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Cursed is he that makes the blind to err in the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

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