Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, (B)to eat things sacrificed to idols, (C)and to commit sexual immorality.
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2 Peter 2:15
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15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of (A)Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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Numbers 31:16
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16 Look, (A)these women caused the children of Israel, through the (B)counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and (C)there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
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Revelation 2:20
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20 Nevertheless I have [a]a few things against you, because you allow [b]that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [c]to teach and seduce My servants (B)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
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- Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
- Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
- Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces
Numbers 25:1-3
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Israel’s Harlotry in Moab
25 Now Israel remained in (A)Acacia Grove,[a] and the (B)people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. 2 (C)They invited the people to (D)the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and (E)bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and (F)the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel.
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- Numbers 25:1 Heb. Shittim
Acts 15:29
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29 (A)that you abstain from things offered to idols, (B)from blood, from things strangled, and from (C)sexual[a] immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.
Farewell.
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- Acts 15:29 Or fornication
Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way (A)of Cain, (B)have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished (C)in the rebellion of Korah.
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Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; (B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Joshua 24:9
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9 Then (A)Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose to make war against Israel, and (B)sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
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1 Peter 2:8
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8 and
(A)“A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.”
(B)They stumble, being disobedient to the word, (C)to which they also were appointed.
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1 Corinthians 10:18-31
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18 Observe (A)Israel (B)after the flesh: (C)Are not those who eat of the sacrifices [a]partakers of the altar? 19 What am I saying then? (D)That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles (E)sacrifice (F)they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 (G)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (H)the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the (I)Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 22 Or do we (J)provoke the Lord to jealousy? (K)Are we stronger than He?
All to the Glory of God(L)
23 All things are lawful [b]for me, but not all things are (M)helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things [c]edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one (N)the other’s well-being.
25 (O)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake; 26 for (P)“the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”
27 If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinner, and you desire to go, (Q)eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake. 28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it (R)for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; [d]for (S)“the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” 29 “Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For (T)why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience? 30 But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for the food (U)over which I give thanks?
31 (V)Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 10:18 fellowshippers or sharers
- 1 Corinthians 10:23 NU omits for me
- 1 Corinthians 10:23 build up
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 NU omits the rest of v. 28.
Acts 21:25
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25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, (A)we have written and decided [a]that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from [b]sexual immorality.”
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- Acts 21:25 NU omits that they should observe no such thing, except
- Acts 21:25 fornication
Acts 15:20-21
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20 but that we (A)write to them to abstain (B)from things polluted by idols, (C)from [a]sexual immorality, (D)from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, (E)being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
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- Acts 15:20 Or fornication
Numbers 31:8
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8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—(A)Evi, Rekem, (B)Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. (C)Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
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Revelation 21:8
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8 (A)But the cowardly, [a]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in (B)the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
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- Revelation 21:8 M adds and sinners,
1 Corinthians 7:2
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2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 6:13-18
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13 (A)Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for (B)sexual immorality but (C)for the Lord, (D)and the Lord for the body. 14 And (E)God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up (F)by His power.
15 Do you not know that (G)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For (H)“the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 (I)But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 (J)Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins (K)against his own body.
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Matthew 18:7
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7 Woe to the world because of [a]offenses! For (A)offenses must come, but (B)woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
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- Matthew 18:7 enticements to sin
Ezekiel 3:20
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20 “Again, when a (A)righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Numbers 24:14
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14 And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, (A)I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the (B)latter days.”
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Revelation 22:15
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15 [a]But (A)outside are (B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
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- Revelation 22:15 NU, M omit But
1 Corinthians 8:4-13
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4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one. 5 For even if there are (C)so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6 yet (D)for us there is one God, the Father, (E)of whom are all things, and we for Him; and (F)one Lord Jesus Christ, (G)through whom are all things, and (H)through whom we live.
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, (I)with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is (J)defiled. 8 But (K)food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
9 But (L)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become (M)a [a]stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not (N)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And (O)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But (P)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, (Q)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:9 cause of offense
Romans 14:21
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21 It is good neither to eat (A)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles [a]or is offended or is made weak.
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- Romans 14:21 NU omits the rest of v. 21.
Romans 14:13
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13 Therefore let us not judge one another [a]anymore, but rather resolve this, (A)not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
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- Romans 14:13 any longer
Ezekiel 44:12
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12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and (A)caused[a] the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have (B)raised My hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord God, “that they shall bear their iniquity.
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- Ezekiel 44:12 Lit. became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel
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