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 somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.

A stumbling-block

And it shall be said, Heap it up, heap it up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.

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

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

Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and 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 sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

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

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

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to them that are weak.

And, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.

Eat

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And concerning 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 things 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 they who eat of the sacrifices partakers 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.

For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

Foods 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 held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Cursed be he that makes 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, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.