Revelation 2:14 Cross References - MNT

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

⁷ "Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

²⁰ "but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood. ²¹ "For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

²⁹ "that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

²⁵ "As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

³² And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

⁹ As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

¹³ So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

²¹ The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

²³ but we come preaching a crucified Messiah—to Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

¹³ "Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; ¹⁴ and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power. ¹⁵ You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.) ¹⁷ While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit? ¹⁸ Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

² but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

⁴ Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One. ⁵ For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many, ⁶ yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. ⁷ But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled. ⁸ Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any. ⁹ But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died. ¹² In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar? ¹⁹ What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything? ²⁰ On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons. ²² What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? ²³ "All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up. ²⁴ Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good. ²⁵ Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake; ²⁶ for the earth and its fulness are the Lord's. ²⁷ If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake. ²⁸ But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you, ²⁹ and for your conscience sake—his conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience? ³⁰ If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?" ³¹ Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

¹⁵ They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

¹¹ Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

⁸ But as for the cowards, the faithless, the abominable, And for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, Idolaters, and all liars, Their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. "This is the second death."

¹⁵ Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.