But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Pe
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedn
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she mislea
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorali
Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perish
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult
Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with t
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols,
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appo
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual imm
Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he wil
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and al
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be st
Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your
And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.