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 thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

A stumbling-block

Wo to the world because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come; but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh.

Wherefore? Because they sought it, not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence to them.

Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling block, or a scandal before a brother.

to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness:

But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to the weak.

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, to them who stumble, not believing the word, whereunto also they were appointed.

Eat

But I have against thee, that thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who callest herself a prophetess, and teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

As touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written and determined, that they should observe no such thing; save only that they keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Consider Israel after the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

To commit

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

General references

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