1 Corinthians 8 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹ Now, concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. ² However, if any one is confident of knowing anything, he has known nothing, yet, as he ought to know. ³ But, if any one love God, the same is acknowledged by him.) ⁴ Concerning, then, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ For though, indeed, there are nominal gods, whether in heaven or on earth; (as, indeed, there are many gods, and many lords;) ⁶ yet, to us, there is but one God, the Father; of whom all things are, and we for him: and one Lord Jesus Christ; by whom all things are, and we by him. ⁷ However, this knowledge is not in all: for some, till this hour, in the conscience of the idol, eat it, as a thing sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ⁸ But meat does not recommend us to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse. ⁹ Nevertheless, take heed, lest, perhaps, this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one see you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ and through this, your knowledge, shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² And, by thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore, if meat make my brother stumble, I will never eat flesh, lest I make my brother stumble.

²³ To whom I will declare, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, you who practice iniquity.

²⁷ My Father has imparted everything to me; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; neither knows any one the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

⁴⁹ The stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brothers. ⁵⁰ For whosoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, is my brother, and sister, and mother.

⁶ but whosoever shall ensnare any of these little ones, who believe in me, it were better for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were sunk in the ocean.

⁶ but whosoever shall ensnare any of these little ones, who believe in me, it were better for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were sunk in the ocean. ⁷ Alas for the world because of snares! Snares indeed there must be; nevertheless, alas for the ensnarer!

¹⁰ Beware of contemning any of these little ones; for I assure you, that in heaven, their angels continually behold the face of my heavenly Father:

²¹ Then Peter approaching, said to him, Master, if my brother repeatedly trespass against me, how often must I forgive him? must I seven times?

⁴⁰ The King will reply to them, Indeed, I say to you, that inasmuch as you have done this to any the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me.

⁴⁵ Then he will reply to them, saying, Indeed, I say to you, that inasmuch as you did it not to any the least of these, you did it not to me.

¹⁸ Jesus came near, and said to them, All authority is given to me in heaven and upon the earth;

²¹ that all may be one; that as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me; ²² and that thou gavest me the glory, which I have given them; that they may be one, as we are one; ²³ I in them, and thou in me, that their union may be perfected; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them, as thou lovest me.

³⁴ Awake up as you ought, and sin not; for some of you have not the knowledge of God. For shame to you, I say it.

¹³ For you, brethren, have been called into liberty; only use not this liberty for an occasion to the flesh; but through love, assiduously serve one another.

³ For if any one think himself to be something, being nothing he deceives himself.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

¹⁶ Live as freemen, yet do not use your freedom as a covering of wickedness; but as the servants of God.

²⁹ Jesus answered, The chief of all the commandments is, "Hearken, Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is one:"

¹ Then Jesus said to his disciples, It is impossible to exclude snares entirely; but, alas, for him who ensnares! ² It would be more eligible for him to have an upper millstone fastened to his neck, and to be cast into the sea, than to ensnare one of these little ones.

³ All things were made by him, and without him not a single creature was made.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself does: nay, and will show him greater works than these, which will astonish you. ²¹ For as the Father raises and quickens the dead, the Son also quickens whom he will: ²² for the Father judges no person, having committed the power of judging entirely to the Son, ²³ that all might honor the Son; as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father, who sent him. ²⁴ Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my doctrine, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and shall not suffer condemnation, having passed from death to life. ²⁵ Most assuredly, I say to you, the time comes; or, rather, is come, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and hearing, they shall live. ²⁶ For, as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son, to have life in himself; ²⁷ and has given him even the judicial authority, because he is a Son of Man. ²⁸ Wonder not at this: for the time comes when all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹ and shall come forth. They who have done good, shall arise to enjoy life; they who have done evil, shall arise to suffer punishment.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd. And I know my own, and am known by them,

³⁰ I and the Father are one.

³⁴ Jesus replied, Is it not written in your law, "I said, You are gods?" ³⁵ If the law styled them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and if the language of scripture in unexceptionable;

¹³ You call me the Teacher and the Master; and you say right; for so I am.

⁹ Jesus replied, Have I been with you so long, and do you not yet know me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father. How do you say, then, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak to you proceed not form myself: as to the works, it is the Father dwelling in me who does them.

²⁰ On that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me; and I in you.

³ Now this is the life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus, the Messiah, thy Apostle.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

¹⁷ A third time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter, grieved at his asking this question a third time, answered, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus replied, Feed my sheep.

³⁶ Let, therefore, all the house of Israel assuredly know, that God has made this Jesus, whom you have crucified, Lord and Messiah.

³¹ HIM has God exalted at his right hand, a Prince and Saviour, to give reformation to Israel, and remission of sins.

⁴ and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? ⁵ And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute:

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you these things? We are your fellow-mortals, and are declaring the glad tidings to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God; who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all living things which are in them:

¹⁰ Now, therefore, why do you tempt God by imposing on the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

¹⁹ Wherefore, my judgment is not to disquiet those who, from among the Gentiles, are converted to God; ²⁰ but to write to them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ that you abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication: from which you will do well to keep yourselves. Farewell.

²⁸ for in him we live, and are moved, and do exist; as some of your own poets have said-"For we his offspring are."

²⁶ and you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded great numbers of people, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, and has turned them aside, saying that they are not deities which are made with hands;

²⁵ As for the believing Gentiles, we have written, determining that they should observe none of these things; except it be to keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from that which is strangled, and from fornication.

²⁸ Besides, we know, that all things work together for good, to them who love God; to them, who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For, whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son; that he might be the first born among many brethren.

² God has not cast off his people whom formerly he acknowledged. Do you not know, what the scripture says to Elijah; when he complains to God against Israel, saying,

²⁵ For, brethren, that you may not be, wise in your own conceits, I would not have you ignorant of this secret, that blindness, in part, has happened to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

³⁶ For, from him, and by him, and to him, are all things: to him be the glory forever. Amen.

¹⁶ Be of the same disposition toward one another. Do not care for high things; but accommodate yourselves to those which are humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

¹ Receive him who is weak in the faith, without regard to differences of opinions. ² One, indeed, believes he may eat everything; but he who is weak eats herbs only. ³ Let not him who eats, despise him who eats not; and let not him who eats not, condemn him who eats: for God has received him.

¹⁰ But you, why do you condemn your brother? and you, also, why do you despise your brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹³ Let us, therefore, no more judge one another; but let us decide, rather, not to lay an occasion of stumbling before a brother, or a cause of falling. ¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; yet, to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean. ¹⁵ Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died.

¹⁵ Now, if your brother be hurt through your meat, you no longer walk as love requires. Do not destroy him with your meat for whom Christ died.

¹⁷ For the Reign of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Do not, for the sake of meat, destroy the work of God. All meats, indeed, are clean; but that meat is hurtful to the man who eats to occasion stumbling. ²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother is made to stumble, or to fall, or is weakened.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother is made to stumble, or to fall, or is weakened. ²² You have faith: keep it to yourself, in the sight of God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

²² You have faith: keep it to yourself, in the sight of God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³ For he who discerns a difference, between meats is condemned, if he eat; because he eats not from faith: for what is not from faith is sin.

²³ For he who discerns a difference, between meats is condemned, if he eat; because he eats not from faith: for what is not from faith is sin.

¹ We, then, who are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

¹ We, then, who are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Wherefore, let every one of us please his neighbor, as far as it is good for edification. ³ For even Christ sought not his own pleasure: but, as it is written, "The reproaches of them who reproached you, have fallen on me."

¹⁴ However, my brethren, I myself am persuaded concerning you, that you also are full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge; able, also, to instruct one another.

² to the congregation of God which is in Corinth, sanctified by Christ Jesus, called saints; with all, in every place, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

⁵ that you were enriched with every gift, by him; even with all speech, and all knowledge,

¹⁰ Now, brethren, I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment. ¹¹ For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by some of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

⁹ For, as it is written, "Those things eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered, which God has prepared for them who love him."

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you think to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

¹⁰ We are fools on account of Christ; but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honored, but we are despised.

¹⁸ Now, some are puffed up, as if I were not coming to you.

² And you are puffed up, and have not rather bewailed, so that he who has done this work might be taken from among you.

⁶ Your boasting is not becoming. Do you not know, that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

¹² All meats are lawful for me to eat, but all are not proper: all meats are lawful for me to eat; but I will not be enslaved by any meat. ¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; however, God will destroy both it and them. Now, the body was not made for uncleanness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

¹ Now, concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

¹ Now, concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. ² However, if any one is confident of knowing anything, he has known nothing, yet, as he ought to know.

² However, if any one is confident of knowing anything, he has known nothing, yet, as he ought to know.

⁴ Concerning, then, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God but one.

⁶ yet, to us, there is but one God, the Father; of whom all things are, and we for him: and one Lord Jesus Christ; by whom all things are, and we by him. ⁷ However, this knowledge is not in all: for some, till this hour, in the conscience of the idol, eat it, as a thing sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁷ However, this knowledge is not in all: for some, till this hour, in the conscience of the idol, eat it, as a thing sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁹ Nevertheless, take heed, lest, perhaps, this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one see you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹⁰ For if any one see you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹⁰ For if any one see you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ and through this, your knowledge, shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² And, by thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore, if meat make my brother stumble, I will never eat flesh, lest I make my brother stumble.

¹² If others partake of this authority over you, ought not we, rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power; but we bear all things, that we may not give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

¹⁹ For, though I be a freeman, with respect to all; I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ So, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those under the law, (though not under the law) as under the law, that I might gain those under the law: ²¹ to those without law, as without law, (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those that are without law. ²² To the weak, I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. To all, I have become all things, that, by all means, I might same some.

²² To the weak, I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. To all, I have become all things, that, by all means, I might same some. ²³ Now, this I do for the sake of the gospel, and that I may become a joint partaker of its rewards.

¹⁹ What, then, do I affirm? that an idol is anything, or than an idol sacrifice is anything?

¹⁹ What, then, do I affirm? that an idol is anything, or than an idol sacrifice is anything? ²⁰ No. But, that what the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now, I would not have you become joint partakers with the demons.

²⁰ No. But, that what the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now, I would not have you become joint partakers with the demons.

²⁰ No. But, that what the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now, I would not have you become joint partakers with the demons. ²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you can not partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you can not partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. ²² Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but that of his neighbor, also.

²⁸ But if any one say to you, This is a thing sacrificed to an idol; do not eat, on account of him who showed it, and of conscience.

²⁸ But if any one say to you, This is a thing sacrificed to an idol; do not eat, on account of him who showed it, and of conscience. ²⁹ Now, I say conscience, not your own, but that of the other. But why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

²⁹ Now, I say conscience, not your own, but that of the other. But why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

³² Be no occasion of stumbling; neither to the Jews, nor to the Greeks, nor to the congregation of God. ³³ Even as I please all men in all things; not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

³ Wherefore, I inform you, that no one, speaking by the Spirit of God, pronounces Jesus accursed; and, that no one can declare Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

¹² For, as the body is one, although it have many members; and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

¹ Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal. ² And though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited. ⁴ Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil;

⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth: ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished.

⁸ Love never fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished. ⁹ For we know only in part, and prophesy in part.

⁹ For we know only in part, and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when perfection is come, then what is in part will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known.

¹² For now we seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in understanding; but in evil be children, and in understanding be full grown men.

³ giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed.

²¹ I speak of reproach, as, that we are weak. But, in whatever any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn?

⁸ But formerly indeed, when you knew not God, you served those, who by nature were not gods. ⁹ But now, having acknowledged God, (or rather, being acknowledged by God,) why do you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which again, a second time, you incline to be in bondage?

²⁰ which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places; ²¹ far above all government, and power, and might, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; ²² and subjected all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things to the congregation, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all;

¹⁴ On this account, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and with all, and in you all.

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and with all, and in you all.

¹⁶ from whom, the whole body, fitly joined together, and compacted by the service of every joint, according to the energy, in the proportion of each particular part, effects the increase of the body, for the edification of itself in love.

⁹ And for this reason, God has exceedingly exalted him, and has bestowed on him a name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow; of those in heaven, and upon the earth, and under the earth; ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ which is present among you, as it is also in the world, and is bringing forth fruit and prevailing, even as among you, from that day you heard and knew the favor of God in truth-

¹⁶ Because, by him were created all things which are in the heavens, and which are upon the earth; things visible, and things invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or governments, or powers; all things were created by him and for him. ¹⁷ And he is before all things; and by him all things consist.

¹⁸ Let no one beguile you of your reward, -delighting in humility, and the worship of messengers, intruding into things which he has not seen, being without cause, puffed up by his own carnal mind:

²⁰ Now, if you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, you are subject to ordinances, ²¹ Touch not, taste not, handle not; ²² (which are all to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men; ²³ which things have, indeed, a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and not sparing the body-without any respect to the gratification of the flesh.

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against every one called a god, or an object of worship; so that he places himself in the temple of God, openly exhibiting himself, that he is a god.

⁵ (now the end of the charge is love, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and unfeigned faith: ⁶ from which things some having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking;) ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say, nor the things about which they are so positive.

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God alone, be honor and glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, -the man Christ Jesus,

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, -the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all; -of which the testimony is in its proper season:

³ If any one teach differently, and consent not to wholesome dictates of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; ⁴ he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing; but is doting about questions, and verbal contentions, from which come envy, strife, evil speakings, unjust suspicions,

¹⁹ Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands firm, having this inscription, The Lord has made known them who are his:- and, Let every one who names the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

⁸ Now, in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men wholly corrupted in mind, reprobate as to the faith. ⁹ However, they shall not proceed further; for their foolishness shall be very plain to all, as theirs also was.

² has, in these last days, spoken to us by a Son, whom he has constituted Lord of all things, by whom, also, he made the universe: ³ who, being in effulgence of his glory, and an exact representation of his character, and controlling all things by his own powerful word, after he had, by himself, made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁹ Be not tossed about with various and foreign doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by meats, by which they have not profited, who have been taken up with them.

¹² Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him.

⁵ Hearken, beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of the world-rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them who love him?

² according to the predetermination of God the Father, by a sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Favor and peace be multiplied to you. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has regenerated us to a lively hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁸ whom, not having seen, you love; on whom, not now looking, but believing, you greatly rejoice, with joy unspeakable and full of glory-

²¹ who through him, believe in God, who raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹⁹ They promise them liberty, whilst they themselves are slaves of corruption: for every one is enslaved by that which overcomes him.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome;

²⁵ to God, alone our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now, and throughout all ages. Amen.

¹⁸ I am he who lives and was dead; and behold, I am living for ever and ever; and I have the keys of the unseen world, and of death.

⁹ I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich,) and I know the slander of those who say they are Jews, and are not; but are the assembly of Satan.

¹³ I know your works, and where you dwell; even where the throne of Satan is: and you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, that you have there, them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

¹⁹ I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and that your last works are more than the first. ²⁰ Nevertheless, I have against you, that you permit that woman Jezebel, who says that she is a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

⁸ I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it; because you have little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. ⁹ Behold, I will give of those-who are of the assembly of Satan; who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold-I will make them to come and worship before your feet; and they shall know that I have loved you.

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were either cold or hot. ¹⁶ Therefore, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth.