Revelation 2:14 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁴ Nevertheless, I have against thee, a few things,––that thou hast there, such as hold fast the teaching of Balaam,––who went on to teach Balak to throw a cause of stumbling before the sons of Israel, to eat idol–sacrifices and to commit lewdness:

¹⁴ Now, therefore, behold me! going to my own people,––Come now! let me advise thee, what this people shall do unto thy people, in the afterpart of the days.

¹ And Israel remained among the acacias,––and the people began to go away unchastely unto the daughters of Moab; ² who invited the people unto the sacrifices of their gods,––so the people did eat, and did bow themselves down unto their gods. ³ Thus Israel let himself be bound unto Baal–peor, and the anger of Yahweh kindled upon Israel.

⁸ and, the kings of Midian, slew they besides their other slain––namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian,––Balaam also, son of Beor, slew they with the sword.

¹⁶ Lo! they, became unto the sons of Israel, by the advice of Balaam, the cause of daring acts of treachery against Yahweh, over the affair of Peor,––and then came the plague against the assembly of Yahweh!

⁹ Then rose up Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, and made war with Israel,––and sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you;

¹⁴ And one said––Cast ye up––cast ye up, prepare ye a way,––Lift the stumbling–block out of the way of my people.

²¹ Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! laying before this people, stumblingblocks,––And fathers and sons together, shall stumble against them, The neighbour and his friend, shall perish.

²⁰ And, when a righteous man hath turned, from his righteousness, and committed perversity, and I have suffered a stumbling–block to be laid before him, he, shall die,––though thou hast not warned him, in his sin, shall he die, neither shall be remembered, his righteous deeds which he hath done, but, his blood, at thy hand, will I require;

¹² Because they used to wait upon them, before their manufactured gods, and became to the house of Israel a stumbling–block of iniquity, For this cause, have I lifted up my hand concerning them, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity;

⁷ Alas for the world! by reason of the causes of stumbling; for it is, necessary, that the causes of stumbling come,––nevertheless, alas for the man through whom the cause of stumbling cometh!

²⁰ but to write unto them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For, Moses, out of ancient generation, hath, in every city, them who proclaim him; seeing, that in the synagogues, every sabbath, he is read.

²⁹ To be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication,––From which, if ye keep yourselves, ye shall prosper. Fare ye well.

²⁵ But, concerning them of the nations who have believed, we ourselves, sent, deciding that they should be guarding themselves, both as to idol sacrifice, and blood, and what is strangled, and fornication.

³² Wherefore? Because, not by faith but as by works, [have they sought it]: they have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

⁹ And, David, saith––Let their table be turned into a snare, and into gin, and into a trap, and into a recompense unto them,

¹³ No longer, then, upon one another, let us be sitting in judgment, but, this, judge ye rather––not to be putting a cause of stumbling before your brother or an occasion to fall.

²¹ Well, is it not to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor [to do aught] whereby thy brother is caused to stumble.

²³ Whereas, we, proclaim a Christ who hath been crucified,––unto Jews, indeed, an occasion of stumbling, and, unto Gentiles, foolishness;

¹³ Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but, God, will set aside, both it and them. The body, however, is not for fornication, but, for the Lord,––and, the Lord, for the body. ¹⁴ God, moreover, hath both raised up, the Lord, and will raise, us, up from among [the dead] through his power. ¹⁵ Know ye not that, your bodies, are, members of Christ? Shall I, then, take away the members of the Christ and make them members of a harlot? Far be it! ¹⁶ Or know ye not that, he that joineth himself unto the harlot, is, one body? For, saith he, the two, shall become, one flesh; ¹⁷ But, he that joineth himself unto the Lord, is, one Spirit. ¹⁸ Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.

² But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

⁴ Concerning, then, the eating of idol–sacrifices, we are aware––that an idol is, nothing, in the world, and that, none, is God save one. ⁵ For, if indeed there are so–called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth,––as indeed there are gods many and lords many, ⁶ [Yet], to us, there is one God the Father, of whom are all things, and, we, for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and, we, through him.
⁷ Howbeit, not in all, is the knowledge; but, some, by their familiarity, until even now, with the idol, as an idol–sacrifice, eat it, and, their conscience, being, weak, is defiled. ⁸ Food, indeed, will not commend us unto God,––neither, if we eat not, do we lack, nor, if we eat, do we abound. ⁹ But be taking heed, lest, by any means, your right, itself, become, an occasion of stumbling, unto the weak; ¹⁰ For, if anyone should see [thee] who hast knowledge, in an idol–temple, reclining, will not, his conscience, being, weak, be built up for the eating of the idol–sacrifices? ¹¹ In fact, he that is weak, is being destroyed, by thy knowledge––the brother for whose sake Christ died. ¹² But, in thus sinning against the brethren am wounding their conscience, seeing it is weak, against Christ, are ye sinning. ¹³ Therefore, if food is an occasion of stumbling unto my brother, in nowise will I eat flesh unto the age that abideth,––that, I may not occasion, my brother, to stumble.

¹⁸ Be looking at Israel after the flesh:––are not, they who eat the sacrifices, joint partakers with the altar? ¹⁹ What, then, am I saying?––that, an idol–sacrifice, is anything? or that, an idol, is anything? ²⁰ On the contrary––that, the things which the nations sacrifice, unto demons, and not unto God, they sacrifice; and I wish not that ye should become, sharers together with the demons! ²¹ Ye cannot be drinking––a cup of the Lord, and a cup of demons; ye cannot be partaking of, a table of the Lord, and a table of demons. ²² Or are we to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we mightier than he?
²³ All things are allowable––but, not all things, are profitable,––all things are allowable––but, not all things, upbuild. ²⁴ Let, no one, be seeking, what concerneth himself, but that which concerneth some one else. ²⁵ Whatsoever, in the market, is sold, eat,––asking no question, for conscience sake; ²⁶ For, unto the Lord, belongeth the earth, and the fullness thereof. ²⁷ If one of them who believe not invite you, and ye are disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you, eat,––asking no question, for conscience sake. ²⁸ But, if anyone should say unto you,––This, is, a holy sacrifice, do not eat, for that man’s sake who disclosed it, and for conscience sake:–– ²⁹ But, conscience, I mean, not thine own, but the other’s,––for why is my freedom to be judged by another’s conscience? ³⁰ If, I, with gratitude, partake, why am I to be defamed, as to that for which, I, give thanks? ³¹ Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do, all things to the glory of God.

⁴ Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.

⁸ And a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over: Who stumble because, unto the word, they do not yield,––unto which also they have been appointed;

¹⁵ Forsaking a straight path, they have gone astray, following out the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved, a reward of wrong,

¹¹ Alas for them! because––in the way of Cain have they gone, and, in the error of Balaam’s wage, have they run riot, and, in the gainsaying of Korah, have they perished.

⁴ Nevertheless, I have against thee, that, thy first love, thou hast left.

²⁰ Nevertheless, I have against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, she who calleth herself a prophetess, and is teaching and leading astray my own servants to commit lewdness and to eat idol–sacrifices;

⁸ But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone,––which is the second death.

¹⁵ Outside, are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the unchaste, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and doing falsehood.