Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Their word

Hymenaeus

Bible References

Their word

Nahum 3:15
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.
James 5:3
Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

Hymenaeus

1 Timothy 1:20
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

General references

Leviticus 13:7
But if the scab have spread much in the skin, after that he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again;
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.
Galatians 5:9
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.