Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Parallel translations
- WEB of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught 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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Quick answer
Paul names Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom he handed over to Satan to learn not to blaspheme. It shows that church discipline aims at correction, not mere punishment.
Overview
Paul cites two men whose error he addressed by delivering them to Satan, likely removing them from the church's protection. The goal was corrective, that they 'be taught not to blaspheme.' This sober example shows discipline exercised for the offenders' ultimate good and the church's purity.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- 1 Cor 5:4–5In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
- 2 Tim 2:17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- 2 Th 3:15Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Rev 13:5–6And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
- Acts 19:33And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
- 2 Tim 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 Cor 10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
- Rev 13:1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
- 2 Tim 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
- 2 Tim 4:14–15Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
- Matt 18:17And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
- 2 Cor 13:10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
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