2 Timothy 2:17

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Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
  • Nah 3:15 : 15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.
  • Jas 5:3 : 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But just as there were false prophets among the people, there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

  • 1 Tim 1:19-20
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    19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have shipwrecked their faith.

    20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

    19They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

    20For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many who are rebellious, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

    11They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.

  • Jude 1:10-12
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    10These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.

    13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

    14They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.

    15They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Keep reminding them of these things, and solemnly warn them before God not to quarrel about words. Such arguments are useless and lead to the ruin of those who listen.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6Some have departed from these and turned aside to meaningless talk.

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

  • Col 2:22
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    22which all perish as they are used—based on human commands and teachings.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,

    4he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.

    5These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.

  • Phil 3:19
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    19Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

  • 2 Tim 3:6-9
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    6They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.

    7Always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

    8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth. They are corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.

    9But they will not get very far because their folly will be clear to everyone, just as the folly of Jannes and Jambres became evident.

  • Jude 1:16-18
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    16These people are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering others for their own advantage.

    17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18They said to you, 'In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2They will speak lies with hypocrisy, and their consciences will be seared as with a hot iron.

  • 1 Tim 6:20-21
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    20O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.

    21Some, by professing it, have strayed from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

  • Acts 20:30
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    30Even from among your own group, men will rise up, speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples to follow them.

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12and they bring judgment on themselves for breaking their first pledge.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears.

    4They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16As he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. In them, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

  • Jude 1:8
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    8In the same way, these people also, relying on their dreams, defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious beings.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not like many, peddling the word of God for profit. Instead, with sincerity, as sent from God and in His presence, we speak in Christ.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10the sexually immoral, those who practice homosexuality, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,