Revelation 2:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:14

It shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way; remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus says the Lord: See, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; parents and children together, neighbor and friend shall perish.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to them before their idols and made the house of Israel stumble into iniquity, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord God, that they shall bear their punishment.

Numbers 24:14

So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come.”

Numbers 31:16

These women here, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.

Numbers 31:8

They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, in addition to others who were slain by them, 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 are bound to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Acts 21:25

But as for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from sexual immorality.”

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

Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.

Romans 14:21

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

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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 sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Joshua 24:9

Then King Balak son of Zippor of Moab set out to fight against Israel. He sent and invited Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

1 Peter 2:8

and “A stone that makes them stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.