Revelation 2:14 Cross References - CLV

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to be eating idol sacrifices, and to commit prostitution."

¹⁴ And now, behold me going to my people. Come now! I shall counsel you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.

¹ While Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people started to commit prostitution with the daughters of Moab, ² who called the people to the sacrifices of their elohim. The people ate their sacrifices and bowed themselves down to their elohim. ³ Thus Israel was paired with Baal-peor, and the anger of Yahweh grew hot against Israel.

⁸ As for the kings of Midian, they killed them along with their men wounded to death:Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian. Also Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword.

¹⁶ Behold, they, by the word of Balaam, came to be for the sons of Israel the reason for a withdrawal from and an offense against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the stroke came to be in the congregation of Yahweh.

⁹ `And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, rises and fights against Israel, and sends and calls for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you,

¹⁴ And he says, "Heap up! Heap up the highway! Surface the way! Heave the stumbling block from the way of my people!"

²¹ Therefore thus said Yahweh:Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbor and his friend do perish."

²⁰ `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he has done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dies; because you have not warned him, in his sin he dies, and not remembered is his righteousness that he has done, and his blood from your hand I require."

¹² Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh--and they have borne their iniquity."

⁷ Woe to the world because of snares! For it is a necessity for snares to be coming. Moreover, woe to that man through whom the snare is coming!"

²⁰ but to write an epistle to them to be abstaining from ceremonial pollution with idols, and prostitution, and what is strangled, and blood." ²¹ For Moses, from ancient generations, city by city, has those who are heralding him, being read on every sabbath in the synagogues."

²⁹ to be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled and prostitution; from which, carefully keeping yourselves, you will be well engaged. Farewell!"

²⁵ Now concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write an epistle, deciding they are to guard themselves from idol sacrifice, besides from blood also, and what is strangled, and from prostitution."

³² Wherefore? Seeing that it is not out of faith, but as out of law works, they stumble on the stumbling stone,

⁹ And David is saying, Let their table become a trap and a mesh, And a snare and a repayment to them:"

¹³ By no means, then, should we still be judging one another, but rather decide this, not to place a stumbling block for a brother, or a snare."

²¹ It is ideal not to be eating meat, nor yet to be drinking wine, nor yet to do aught by which your brother is stumbling, or is being snared or weakened."

²³ yet we are heralding Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a snare, yet to the nations stupidity,

¹³ Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." ¹⁴ Now God rouses the Lord also, and will be rousing us up through His power." ¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁶ Or are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh." ¹⁷ Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body."

² Yet, because of prostitutions, let each man have a wife for himself and each woman have her own husband."

⁴ Then, concerning the feeding on the idol sacrifices: We are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except One." ⁵ For even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, ⁶ nevertheless for us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him." ⁷ But not in all is there this knowledge. Now some, used hitherto to the idol, are eating of it as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, being weak, is being polluted." ⁸ Now food will not give us a standing with God, neither, if we should not be eating are we in want, nor if we should be eating are we cloyed." ⁹ Now beware lest somehow this right of yours may become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone should be seeing you, who has knowledge, lying down in an idol's shrine, will not the conscience of him who is weak be inured to the eating of the idol sacrifices? ¹¹ For the weak one is perishing also by your knowledge; the brother because of whom Christ died. ¹² Now in thus sinning against brethren, and beating their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ." ¹³ Wherefore, if food is snaring my brother, I may under no circumstances be eating meat for the eon, lest I should be snaring my brother."

¹⁸ Observe Israel according to the flesh. Are not those eating the sacrifices participants with the altar? ¹⁹ What, then, am I averring? That an idol sacrifice is anything? Or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ But that that which the nations are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons and not to God. Now I do not want you to become participants with the demons." ²¹ You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can not be partaking of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Not stronger that He are we! ²³ All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but not all is edifying." ²⁴ Let no one be seeking the welfare of himself, but that of another." ²⁵ Everything that is sold at the meat market be eating, examining nothing because of conscience." ²⁶ For "the Lord's is the earth and that which fills it." ²⁷ If anyone of the unbelievers is inviting you, and you want to go, be eating everything that is placed before you, examining nothing because of conscience." ²⁸ Yet if anyone should be saying to you, "This is a sacred sacrifice,do not eat, because of that one who divulges it, and conscience." ²⁹ Yet conscience, I am saying, not that of yourself, but that of another. For why is my freedom being decided by another's conscience? ³⁰ If I, with gratitude, am partaking, why am I being calumniated for that for which I am giving thanks? ³¹ Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God."

⁴ May matrimony be honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, for paramours and adulterers will God be judging."

⁸ and a stumbling stone and a snare rock; who are stumbling also at the word, being stubborn, to which they were appointed also."

¹⁵ Leaving the straight path, they were led astray, following out the path of Balaam of Beor, who loves the wages of injustice,

¹¹ Woe to them! for they went in the way of Cain, and in the deception of Balaam's wages were they poured out, and in the contradiction of Korah they perished."

⁴ But I have against you that you leave your first love.

²⁰ But I have much against you, seeing that you pardon that woman of yours, Jezebel, who says that she is a prophetess, and is teaching and deceiving My slaves so as to commit prostitution and to be eating idol sacrifices."

⁸ Yet the timid, and unbelievers, and the abominable, and murderers, and paramours, and enchanters, and idolaters, and all the false-their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Outside are curs, and enchanters, and paramours, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone fabricating and fondling falsehood."