Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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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