Jesus said to the devil, “Go away from me, Satan! It is written \{in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [52]} \},
1 Timothy 5:15 - Easy To Read Version But some of the younger widows have already turned away to follow Satan (the devil). Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For some are already turned aside after Satan. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For already some [widows] have turned aside after Satan. American Standard Version (1901) for already some are turned aside after Satan. Common English Bible Some have already turned away to follow Satan.) Catholic Public Domain Version For certain ones have already been turned back to Satan. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For some are already turned aside after Satan. |
Jesus said to the devil, “Go away from me, Satan! It is written \{in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [52]} \},
Hymenaeus and Alexander are men like that. I have given those men to Satan (the devil) so that they will learn not to speak against God.
You know that every person in the country of Asia {\cf2\super [10]} has left me. Even Phygelus and Hermogenes have left me.
They have left the true teaching. They say that the rising from death \{of all people\} has already happened. And those two men are destroying the faith of some people.
Demas loved this world too much. That is why he left me. He went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia. And Titus went to Dalmatia.
Many people will follow them in the morally wrong things they do. And other people will say bad things about the Way of truth because of those people.
Paul writes like this about these things in all his letters. Sometimes there are things in Paul’s letters that are hard to understand. Some people explain those things falsely. Those people are ignorant and weak in faith. Those same people also falsely explain the other Scriptures. {\cf2\super [15]} But they are destroying themselves by doing that.
Those enemies of Christ were in our group. But they left us. They did not really belong with us. If they were really part of our group, then they would have stayed with us. But they left. This shows that none of them really belonged with us.
The snake was thrown down out of heaven. (The giant snake is that old snake called the devil or Satan. He leads the whole world into the wrong way.) The snake with his angels were thrown to the earth.