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2 Timothy 2:17

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And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;
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  1. 1 Timothy 1:20Rank 1 from verse 17
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    20Of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

  2. Nahum 3:15Rank 2 from verse 17
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    15There 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.

  3. James 5:3Rank 3 from verse 17
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    3Your 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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2 Timothy 2:17

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

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COMBINED MEANING

eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

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canker

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Sense 1: A spreading, consuming sore. Sense 2: Figuratively, a destructive corruption.

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whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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2:14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

2:15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2:16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

2:17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;

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2:18Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2:20But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

2:21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

2:22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2:23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

2:24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

2:25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

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