2 Timothy 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And their teaching [will devour; it] will eat its way like cancer or spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ and their ideas will spread like an infection. This includes Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And their word spreads like a cancer: among these are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:

2 Timothy 2:17 Cross References

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

1 Timothy 1:20

among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days.