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: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

A stumbling-block

Woe to the world for hindrances! Hindrances have to come, but ??woe to the man by whom the hindrance does come!

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

And David says, Let their table prove a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution for them;

So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

Eat

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

As for Gentile believers, we have issued our decision that they must avoid food that has been offered to idols, the taste of blood, flesh of animals that have been strangled, and sexual vice."

Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

To commit

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

General references

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