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 you that you left your first love.

A stumbling-block

And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people.

Therefore so says Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when I lay a stumbling block 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 I will require at your hand.

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.

Woe to the world because of offenses! For it is necessary that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone;

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

Then let us not judge one another any more, but rather judge this, not to put a stumbling-block or an offense toward his brother.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.

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

and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.

Eat

But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

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

And as to the nations who believe, we joined in writing, judging them to observe no such things, except only that they keep themselves from both idol sacrifice, and blood, and a thing strangled, and from fornication.

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

Behold Israel after the flesh. Are not those who eat of the sacrifices also partakers of the altar?

To commit

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning 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 everyone who loves and makes a lie.

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.