In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; {canker: or, gangrene}

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Yet count {him} not as an enemy, but admonish {him} as a brother.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty {and} two months. {to continue: or, to make war}

And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.

Of these things put {them} in remembrance, charging {them} before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, {but} to the subverting of the hearers.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

And saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. {name: or, names}

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell {it} unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; {canker: or, gangrene}

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; {and} whose soever {sins} ye retain, they are retained.

For some are already turned aside after Satan.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and {when} the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight {be} deeper than the skin of his flesh, it {is} a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. {he...: Heb. in doing he shall do unto him}

And {that} they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. {recover...: Gr. awake} {taken...: Gr. taken alive}

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: