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 thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

A stumbling-block

Woe to the world because of stumblingblocks! For it must needs be that stumblingblocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumblingblock cometh!

Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

And David saith, "Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense to them;

Let us then no longer judge one another; but let this rather be your judgment, not to put a stumblingblock, or an occasion to fall, in a brothers way.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumblingblock, and to gentiles foolishness,

But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

and "a stone of stumbling, and a rock to strike against;" even to those who stumble, being disobedient to the word; to which they were also appointed.

Eat

But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest thy wife Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess, and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

But concerning the gentile believers, we have written to them and decided that they should observe no such thing, save only to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from what hath been strangled, and from fornication.

Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?

To commit

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the polluted with abominations, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and practiseth falsehood.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

General references

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