2 Timothy 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.
  • Nah 3:15 : 15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.
  • Jas 5:3 : 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

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    18Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • 1 Tim 1:19-20
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    19Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

    20Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

    19Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

    11By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

  • Jude 1:10-12
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    10But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

    11A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

    12These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

    13For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

    18For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

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    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

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    19Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

  • 2 Tim 3:6-9
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    6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

    7Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

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    9But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

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    16These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

    17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

    18How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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    2Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

  • 1 Tim 6:20-21
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    20O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

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    30And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

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    12And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

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    4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    17For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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    9A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

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