Revelation 2:14 Cross References - Anderson

¹⁴ Yet I have a few things against you, that you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to practice lewdness.

⁷ Alas for the world because of snares! for it is necessary that snares come: but alas for that man by whom the snare comes!

²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For, from ancient times, Moses has, in every city, those who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath-day.

²⁹ That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

²⁵ But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

³² And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

⁹ And David says: Let their table become a trap, and a net, and a snare, and a recompense to them;

¹³ Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother's way.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

²³ but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness:

¹³ Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body: ¹⁴ and God has raised, up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵ Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be. ¹⁶ Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh. ¹⁷ But he that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. ¹⁸ Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

² But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

⁴ With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. ⁵ For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords,) ⁶ yet to us 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 all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled. ⁸ But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse. ⁹ But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols? ¹¹ and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge? ¹² But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

¹⁸ Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers with the altar? ¹⁹ What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing? ²⁰ But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons. ²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers 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? ²³ All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each the welfare of the other. ²⁵ Any thing that is sold in the market, eat, asking no questions on account of conscience: ²⁶ for the earth and its fullness are the Lord s. ²⁷ If any one of the unbelievers invites you to a feast, and you are disposed to go, eat any thing that is set before you, asking no questions for conscience sake. ²⁸ But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake: ²⁹ conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another? ³⁰ If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of on account of that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether, therefore, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

⁸ and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense to the disobedient, who stumble at the word because they are disobedient, to which stumbling they were also appointed.

¹⁵ who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹¹ Alas for them! for they have gone in the way of Cain: and, in the error of Balaam, they have rushed headlong after reward, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.

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

²⁰ But I have against you that you suffer that woman Jezebel, who calls her self a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my servants to practice lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

⁸ But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers and lewd persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ With out are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.