Revelation 2:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:14

And I say: Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle from my people’s way.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore, thus says the Lord: See, I will place before this people obstacles to trip them up; Parents and children alike, neighbors and friends shall perish.

Ezekiel 3:20

But if the just turn away from their right conduct and do evil when I place a stumbling block before them, then they shall die. Since you did not warn them about their sin, they shall still die, and the just deeds that they performed will not be remembered on their behalf. I will, however, hold you responsible for their blood.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they used to serve them before their idols, thus becoming a stumbling block to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn an oath against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear the consequences of their sin.

Numbers 24:14

“But now that I am about to go to my own people, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

Numbers 31:16

“These are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice were behind the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord in the affair at Peor, so that plague struck the Lord’s community.

Numbers 31:8

Besides those slain in battle, they killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they also killed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword.

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who have come to believe, we sent them our decision that they abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage.”

Romans 11:9

And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

Romans 14:13

Then let us no longer judge one another, but rather resolve never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Romans 14:21

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they did it not by faith, but as if it could be done by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes stumbling,

1 Corinthians 1:23

but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 7:2

but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

Joshua 24:9

Then Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, prepared to war against Israel. He summoned Balaam, son of Beor, to curse you,

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall.” They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny.

2 Peter 2:15

Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I hold this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, who teaches and misleads my servants to play the harlot and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2:4

Yet I hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.