Revelation 2:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:14

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

Jeremiah 6:21

For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.

Numbers 24:14

So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.

Numbers 31:16

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

Numbers 31:8

They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

Matthew 18:7

A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

Acts 15:29

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

Acts 21:25

But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

Romans 11:9

And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

Romans 14:13

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

Romans 14:21

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

Romans 9:32

Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

1 Corinthians 1:23

But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

Hebrews 13:4

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

Joshua 24:9

Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:

1 Peter 2:8

And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

2 Peter 2:15

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

Jude 1:11

A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

Revelation 21:8

But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.