Revelation 2:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ »'I have a few things against you: you have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to present a snare to the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.

⁸ Included in those killed were the five kings of Midian-Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.

¹⁶ »Look, these women caused the Israelites, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor. Thus the congregation of Jehovah experienced the plague.

¹⁴ »Now I am going to my people. Come along and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.«

¹ While Israel remained at Shittim, the people indulged in sexual immorality with the Moabite women. ² The Moabites invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. ³ So Israel joined itself to Baal of Peor. Jehovah was angry against Israel.

⁹ »‘The king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, fought against you. He sent word to Balaam son of Beor and asked him to put a curse on you.

¹⁴ »‘One will say: ‘Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way; Take the stumbling block out of the way of my people.’«

²¹ Therefore, Jehovah says: »I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. They will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbors and friends will perish.«

²⁰ »If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble and they will die. If you do not warn them, they will die because of their sin. The right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

¹² »‘I have sworn against them because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘They will bear the punishment for their iniquity.’

⁷ »A curse is on the earth because of stumbling! It is necessary for stumbling to come. Unhappy is that man through whom the stumbling comes.

²⁰ »We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood. ²¹ »Moses has been preached in the synagogues from old times until now every Sabbath day.«

²⁹ »You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).«

²⁵ Concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write: they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

³² Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

⁹ David says, »Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and recompense to them.

²³ We preach Christ impaled. It is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the nations!

¹³ Let us not judge one another any more. Let no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

²¹ It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

¹³ Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ God has resurrected the Lord, and will also resurrect us by his own power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with (turn them into) the members of a prostitute? God forbid! ¹⁶ What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one (united with her) body? For he said: »Two will be one flesh.« ¹⁷ He who is joined to the Lord is one (united with him in) spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

⁴ Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ There are those called gods in heaven or on earth. There are many gods and many lords. ⁶ But to us there is but one God, the Father. All things come from him and we live for him. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ. All things were made through him and we were made through him. ⁷ Not all people know this. Some eat food offered to idols and their conscience being weak is defiled. ⁸ But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better. ⁹ Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol’s temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened (encouraged) to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And because of your knowledge the weak brother will perish. Christ died for him! ¹² When you sin against your brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.

¹⁸ Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar? ¹⁹ What do I mean? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? ²⁰ But I say, that the things that the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi 1:12) ²² Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he? ²³ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient (profitable). All things are lawful for me, but all things do not build up (confirm) (strengthen). ²⁴ Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other [person]. ²⁵ Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience. ²⁶ For the earth and that which fills it is Jehovah’s. (Psalm 24:1) ²⁷ If a nonbeliever invites you to a feast and you feel you must go eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake. ²⁸ But if any man says to you: »This is offered in sacrifice to idols,« do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake. ²⁹ Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: Yet why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience? ³⁰ For if I by grace am a partaker, why is evil spoken about me concerning that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

⁸ It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.

¹⁵ They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.

⁴ »'However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.

²⁰ »'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my servants astray so that they commit immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

⁸ »But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.«

¹¹ Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.

¹⁵ »'Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'