of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
Parallel translations
- KJV Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
- BSB Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
- NKJV of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
- NASB Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.
- NLT Hymenaeus and Alexander are two examples. I threw them out and handed them over to Satan so they might learn not to blaspheme God.
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- 1 Cor 5:4–5In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- 2 Tim 2:17and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- 2 Th 3:15Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Rev 13:5–6A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
- Acts 19:33They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.
- 2 Tim 2:14Remind 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.
- 2 Cor 10:6and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
- Rev 13:1Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
- 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
- 2 Tim 4:14–15Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
- Matt 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
- 2 Cor 13:10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
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