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 the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Hymenaeus

1 Timothy 1:20
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

General references

Leviticus 13:7
But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
Galatians 5:9
A little yeast grows through the whole lump.