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

However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.

A stumbling-block

One will say: 'Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way; Take the stumbling block out of the way of my people.'

Therefore, Jehovah says: I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. They will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbors and friends will perish.

If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble and they will die. If you do not warn them, they will die because of their sin. The right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

I have sworn against them because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel,' declares the Lord Jehovah. 'They will bear the punishment for their iniquity.'

A curse is on the earth because of stumbling! It is necessary for stumbling to come. Unhappy is that man through whom the stumbling comes.

Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and recompense to them.

Let us not judge one another any more. Let no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

We preach Christ impaled. It is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the nations!

Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.

Eat

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my servants astray so that they commit immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

Concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write: they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

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

Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar?

To commit

But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is 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 honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

General references

Cursed is the man who misleads a blind person on the road. And all the people answer: Amen.

Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech.

Do not commit fornication like some of them committed. Twenty three thousand of them died in one day.