Wahyu 2:14

2:14 But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, ¹  who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block ²  before the people ³  of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. ⁴ 

Wahyu 3:5

3:5 The one who conquers ⁵  will be dressed like them ⁶  in white clothing, ⁷  and I will never ⁸  erase ⁹  his name from the book of life, but ¹⁰  will declare ¹¹  his name before my Father and before his angels.

Wahyu 14:15

14:15 Then ¹²  another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Use ¹³  your sickle and start to reap, ¹⁴  because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”

[2:14]  ¹ sn See Num 22-24; 31:16.

[2:14]  ² tn That is, a cause for sinning. An alternate translation is “who instructed Balak to cause the people of Israel to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols…”

[2:14]  ³ tn Grk “sons,” but the expression υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραήλ (Juioi Israhl) is an idiom for the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (see L&N 11.58).

[2:14]  ⁴ tn Due to the actual events in the OT (Num 22-24; 31:16), πορνεῦσαι (porneusai) is taken to mean “sexual immorality.” BDAG 854 s.v. πορνεύω 1 states, “engage in illicit sex, to fornicate, to whore…W. φαγεῖν εἰδωλόθυτα ‘eat meat offered to idols’ Rv 2:14, 20.”

[3:5]  ⁵ tn Or “who overcomes.”

[3:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “thus.”

[3:5]  ⁷ tn Or “white robes.”

[3:5]  ⁸ tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mh), the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek.

[3:5]  ⁹ tn Or “will never wipe out.”

[3:5]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[3:5]  ¹¹ tn Grk “will confess.”

[14:15]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[14:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “Send out.”

[14:15]  ¹⁴ tn The aorist θέρισον (qerison) has been translated ingressively.