Revelation 2:14

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

Cross References

Matthew 18:7

Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

Acts 15:29

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

Acts 21:25

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

Romans 11:9

David, too, says--'May their feasts prove a snare and a trap to them--a hindrance and a retribution;

Romans 14:13

Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve--never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in a Brother's way.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

Romans 9:32

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'

1 Corinthians 1:23

We are proclaiming Christ crucified!-to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

1 Peter 2:8

and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.

2 Peter 2:15

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

Revelation 2:4

But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Revelation 22:15

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'