Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might (B)eat food sacrificed to idols and (C)practice sexual immorality.
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2 Peter 2:15
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15 Forsaking the right way, (A)they have gone astray. They have followed (B)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved (C)gain from wrongdoing,
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Numbers 31:16
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16 Behold, (A)these, (B)on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of (C)Peor, and so (D)the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.
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Revelation 2:20
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20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants (B)to practice sexual immorality and (C)to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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Numbers 25:1-3
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Baal Worship at Peor
25 While Israel lived in (A)Shittim, (B)the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. 2 (C)These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
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Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they walked in (A)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (B)to Balaam's error and (C)perished in Korah's rebellion.
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Acts 15:29
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29 (A)that you abstain from (B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
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Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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Joshua 24:9
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9 (A)Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. (B)And he sent and invited 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.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, (B)as they were destined to do.
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1 Corinthians 10:18-31
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18 Consider (A)the people of Israel:[a] (B)are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that (C)an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice (D)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 (E)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (F)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and (G)the table of demons. 22 (H)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? (I)Are we stronger than he?
Do All to the Glory of God
23 (J)“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 (K)Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 (L)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For (M)“the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, (N)eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— 29 I do not mean (O)your conscience, but his. For (P)why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that (Q)for which I give thanks?
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or (R)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 10:18 Greek Consider Israel according to the flesh
Acts 21:25
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25 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, (A)we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled,[a] and from sexual immorality.”
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- Acts 21:25 Some manuscripts omit and from what has been strangled
Acts 15:20-21
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20 but should write to them (A)to abstain from (B)the things polluted by idols, and from (C)sexual immorality, and from (D)what has been strangled, and from (E)blood. 21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, (F)for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
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Numbers 31:8
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8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, (A)Evi, Rekem, (B)Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed (C)Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
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Revelation 21:8
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8 (A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”
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1 Corinthians 7:2
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2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 6:13-18
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13 (A)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one (B)and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but (C)for the Lord, and (D)the Lord for the body. 14 And (E)God raised the Lord and (F)will also raise us up (G)by his power. 15 Do you not know that (H)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined[a] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, (I)“The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord (J)becomes one spirit with him. 18 (K)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[b] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person (L)sins against his own body.
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- 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or who holds fast (compare Genesis 2:24 and Deuteronomy 10:20); also verse 17
- 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or Every sin
Matthew 18:7
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Temptations to Sin
7 “Woe to the world for (A)temptations to sin![a] (B)For it is necessary that temptations come, (C)but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
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- Matthew 18:7 Greek stumbling blocks
Ezekiel 3:20
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20 (A)Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, (B)and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. (C)Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, (D)and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, (E)but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Numbers 24:14
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14 And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, (A)I will let you know what this people will do to your people (B)in the latter days.”
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Revelation 22:15
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15 (A)Outside are (B)the dogs (C)and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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1 Corinthians 8:4-13
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.” 5 For although there may be (C)so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 6 yet (D)for us there is one God, the Father, (E)from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and (F)one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and (G)through whom we exist.
7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, (H)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and (I)their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 (J)Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9 But take care (K)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (L)to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is (M)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers[c] and (N)wounding their conscience when it is weak, (O)you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, (P)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Greek reclining at table
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up
- 1 Corinthians 8:12 Or brothers and sisters
Romans 14:21
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21 (A)It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.[a]
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- Romans 14:21 Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened
Romans 14:13
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Do Not Cause Another to Stumble
13 (A)Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide (B)never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
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Ezekiel 44:12
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12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became (A)a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have (B)sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
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