Revelation 2:14

Weymouth NT

Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel–to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.

Cross References

Matthew 18:7

»Alas for the world because of causes of falling! They cannot but come, but alas for each man through whom they come!«

Acts 15:29

You must abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear of these things, and it will be well with you. Farewell.«

Acts 21:25

But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the faith, we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication.«

Romans 11:9

And David says, »Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement–that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.

Romans 14:21

The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

Romans 9:32

And why? Because they were pursuing a righteousness which should arise not from faith, but from what they regarded as merit. They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way;

1 Corinthians 1:23

while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified–to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 2:8

and »a Stone for the foot to strike against, and a Rock to stumble over.« Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.

2 Peter 2:15

Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray, having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was bent on securing the wages of unrighteousness.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them; for they have followed in the steps of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed on headlong in the evil ways of Balaam; and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah!

Revelation 2:20

Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.

Revelation 2:4

Yet I have this against you–that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars–the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death.«

Revelation 22:15

The unclean are shut out, and so are all who practise magic, all fornicators, all murderers, and those who worship idols, and every one who loves falsehood and tells lies.