Numbers 24:14
Numbers 25:1
Numbers 31:16
Acts 15:29
29to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, ▼▼Other mss. lack from anything strangled
and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will prosper. Goodbye.”Lev 17:14; Acts 15:20; 21:25; Rev 2:14, 20 1 Corinthians 6:13
13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Matt 15:17; Rom 14:17; 1Cor 6:15, 19-20; Eph 5:23; Col 2:22-23; 1Cor 2:15, 19-20, 1Thes 4:3, 71 Corinthians 8:9-10
9But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.Rom 14:13, 20; Gal 5:13 10For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?1Cor 10:28, 321 Corinthians 10:19-20
19Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?1Cor 8:4 20Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.Lev 17:7; Deut 32:17; Ps 106:37; Rev 9:202 Peter 2:15
15They have left the straight path and wandered off to follow the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, ▼▼Other mss. read Beor
who loved the reward he got for doing wrong.Num 22:5, 7, 21, 23, 28; Jude 1:11 Jude 11
11How terrible it will be for them! For they followed the path of Cain, rushed headlong into Balaam's error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves in Korah's rebellion.Gen 4:5; Num 16:1; 2Pet 2:15; 1John 3:12Revelation of John 1:20
20The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands is this: the seven stars are the messengers ▼▼Or angels
of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.”Zech 4:2; Mal 2:7; Matt 5:15; Phil 2:15; Rev 1:12, 16; 2:1
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