2 Timothy 2:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
  • Nah 3:15 : 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
  • Jas 5:3 : 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

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    19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

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