Step Ten- A Closer Look into- RSV

Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Revelation 2:12-15 "And to the angel of the Church in Per ga-mum write; The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.

"'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne us; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of An' ti-pas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

But I have a few things against you, you have some there who hold the teaching of Ba'laam, who taught Ba'lak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols, and practice immorality.

So you also have some who hold the teaching of the Nic o-la'i-tans

Exodus 17:1-7 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Reph'i-dim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink."  And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the LORD to the proof?"

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

So Moses cried to the LORD, "What shall I do with these people?  They are almost ready to stone me."

And the LORD said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go.

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Ho'reb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

And he called the name of the place Mas'-sah and Mer'-i-bah, because to the fault-finding of the children of Israel, and because they put the LORD to the proof by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

Exodus 16:1-3 They set out from E'lim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to be full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Romans 15:1-6 We are strong ought to bear with the failing of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.

For Christ did not please himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who who reproached thee fell on me."

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.