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Rev. 2:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, whog taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eati things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.*k

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Num. 31:16• ¹⁶Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. (Num. 31:16)

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Acts 15:29• ²⁹That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (Acts 15:29)

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1 Cor. 6:13,18• ¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:13,18)

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I have.

Rev. 2:4,20• ⁴Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
²⁰Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. (Rev. 2:4,20)

Balaam.

Num. 24:14• ¹⁴And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days. (Num. 24:14)

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Num. 25:1‑3• ¹And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
²And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
³And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. (Num. 25:1‑3)

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Num. 31:8,16• ⁸And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
¹⁶Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. (Num. 31:8,16)

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Josh. 24:9• ⁹Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: (Josh. 24:9)

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2 Peter 2:15• ¹⁵Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; (2 Peter 2:15)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jude 11)

a stumbling-block.

Isa. 57:14• ¹⁴And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. (Isa. 57:14)

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Jer. 6:21• ²¹Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. (Jer. 6:21)

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Ezek. 3:20• ²⁰Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. (Ezek. 3:20)

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Ezek. 44:12• ¹²Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity. (Ezek. 44:12)

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Matt. 18:7• ⁷Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (Matt. 18:7)

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Rom. 9:32• ³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; (Rom. 9:32)

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Rom. 11:9• ⁹And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: (Rom. 11:9)

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Rom. 14:13,21• ¹³Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
²¹It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. (Rom. 14:13,21)

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1 Cor. 1:23• ²³But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; (1 Cor. 1:23)

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1 Cor. 8:9• ⁹But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. (1 Cor. 8:9)

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1 Peter 2:8• ⁸And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. (1 Peter 2:8)

eat.

Rev. 2:20• ²⁰Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. (Rev. 2:20)

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Acts 15:20‑21,29• ²⁰But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
²¹For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
²⁹That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (Acts 15:20‑21,29)

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Acts 21:25• ²⁵As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. (Acts 21:25)

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1 Cor. 8:4‑13• ⁴As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
⁵For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
⁶But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
⁷Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
⁸But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
⁹But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
¹⁰For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
¹¹And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
¹²But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
¹³Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. (1 Cor. 8:4‑13)

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1 Cor. 10:18‑31• ¹⁸Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
¹⁹What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
²⁰But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
²¹Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
²³All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
²⁴Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
²⁵Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
²⁶For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
²⁷If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
²⁸But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
²⁹Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
³⁰For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Cor. 10:18‑31)

to commit.

Rev. 21:8• ⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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1 Cor. 6:13‑18• ¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
¹⁵Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
¹⁶What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:13‑18)

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1 Cor. 7:2• ²Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

• He was led by his covetousness to try and serve the bad king of Moab by cursing the people of God. When God gave him an answer, he goes to God a second time, because his heart wanted its own way. And it is solemn to learn that if God gives you up you may get what you want. (“Lectures on Revelation 2:12-18” by W. Kelly)

• Even the philosophers began to take up Christian truth, and in the writings of the fathers we find pretty much what we have here. What fornication is in moral things, such was their illicit commerce with the world in the things of God. (“Lectures on Revelation 2:12-18” by W. Kelly)

• To Eat Idol Sacrifices: Association with the false worship of devils in the world (1 Cor. 10:20). (“Revelation 2 Symbols” by A.H. Burton)

• Fornication: Illicit commerce with the world. (“Revelation 2 Symbols” by A.H. Burton)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.

W. Kelly Translation

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But I have a few things against thee, [becausea] thou hast there someb that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.

WK Translation Notes

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Some of the oldest Latin copies omit "because," which others give.

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The word "some," or "persons that hold," is better than "them that hold."

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)