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

1 Corinthians 10:18

To commit

Hebrews 13:4

General references

1 Corinthians 10:8

Bible References

I have

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

A stumbling-block

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

Eat

But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

To commit

But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."

Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

General references

Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.