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 it against you, that you left your first love.

A stumbling-block

"Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity that the stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block comes!

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way.

but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, a stumbling-block, and to the gentiles foolishness;

But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

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

Eat

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces My servants to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.

but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood;

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we sent to them, having given judgment, that they should keep themselves from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication."

concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

To commit

But, for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death."

Without are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and acting a lie.

Foods are for the stomach, and the stomach for foods; but God will bring to nought both this and these. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators 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.