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 against you that you have left your first love.

A stumbling-block

Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must necessarily come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;

Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.

we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness,

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

and a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, who stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

Eat

But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

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

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

To commit

But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

General references

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.