2 Timothy 2:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
  • Nah 3:15 : 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
  • Jas 5:3 : 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

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    18men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

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    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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

    2Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

  • 1 Tim 1:19-20
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    19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

    20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

  • Jude 1:10-12
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    10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

    11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

    12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

    13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing;

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    14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

    18For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

  • Col 2:22
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    22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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    19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

  • 2 Tim 3:6-9
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    6For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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    16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

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    20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

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    12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

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    3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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    9A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

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