1 Timothy 1:20
New International Version
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

New Living Translation
Hymenaeus and Alexander are two examples. I threw them out and handed them over to Satan so they might learn not to blaspheme God.

English Standard Version
among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Berean Standard Bible
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

Berean Literal Bible
among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.

King James Bible
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

New King James Version
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

New American Standard Bible
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

NASB 1995
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

NASB 1977
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Legacy Standard Bible
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

Amplified Bible
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be disciplined and taught not to blaspheme.

Christian Standard Bible
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Hymenaeus and Alexander are among them, and I have delivered them to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

American Standard Version
of whom is Hymen�us and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Like Humenayus and Alexandrus, those whom I have delivered to Satan that they may be instructed not to blaspheme.

Contemporary English Version
Two of them are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I have given these men over to the power of Satan, so they will learn not to oppose God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

English Revised Version
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Among these people are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan in order to teach them not to dishonor God.

Good News Translation
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have punished by handing them over to the power of Satan; this will teach them to stop their blasphemy.

International Standard Version
These include Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Literal Standard Version
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

Majority Standard Bible
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

New American Bible
among them Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

NET Bible
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

New Revised Standard Version
among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

New Heart English Bible
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Webster's Bible Translation
Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Weymouth New Testament
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

World English Bible
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Young's Literal Translation
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

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Context
God's Grace to Paul
19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith. 20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:5
hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

1 Timothy 5:15
For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

2 Timothy 2:17
and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.


Treasury of Scripture

Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Hymenaeus.

2 Timothy 2:17
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

Alexander.

Acts 19:33
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.

2 Timothy 2:14
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.

2 Timothy 4:14,15
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: …

I have.

Matthew 18:17
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.

1 Corinthians 5:4,5
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, …

2 Corinthians 10:6
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

that.

1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

2 Thessalonians 3:15
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

blaspheme.

Acts 13:45
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.

2 Timothy 3:2
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Revelation 13:1,5,6
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, 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…

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1. Paul declares Timothy is faithful to the charge which was given him at his going to Macedonia.
5. The right use and end of the law.
11. Paul's calling to be an apostle;
20. and the disobedience or Hymenaeus and Alexander.














(20) Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander.--Here the Apostle names two, as examples of the utter shipwreck of all true faith--persons evidently well known to Timothy and the members of the Church at Ephesus. Hymenaeus is probably identical with the heretic of that name, charged, in the Second Epistle to Timothy, with teaching that the resurrection was already passed, thus undermining the great hope which Christian faith so firmly laid hold of. In the second letter to the Presbyter presiding over the Ephesian congregations the fundamental error was specified on account of which this Hymenaeus was excommunicated.

Alexander.--It would be unsafe positively to identify this person with the personal adversary of St. Paul alluded to in the Second Epistle, 2Timothy 4:14, there spoken of as "Alexander the coppersmith," or with the Alexander mentioned in Acts 19:33. The name was a very common one. Of the Alexander of Acts 19:33 we know nothing; from the circumstances in connection with which he is there mentioned, which took place some ten years before this Epistle was written, he seems to have been a Jew.

Whom I have delivered unto Satan.--In this fearful formula the offender is delivered over to Satan, the evil one. It is a solemn excommunication or expulsion from the Church, accompanied with the infliction of bodily disease or death. In ordinary cases, the offender was quietly expelled from the Christian society. But an Apostle, and only an Apostle, seems to have possessed the awful powers of inflicting bodily suffering in the forms of disease and death. Certain special instances of the exercise of these tremendous powers are recorded in the cases of Ananias and Sapphira, Elymas, the incestuous person at Corinth, and the men here alluded to. The fear of Simon Magus, related in Acts 8:24, seems to have been aroused by his evident expectation that this well-known apostolic power would be put in force in his case. It is, however, noticeable that this punishment was not necessarily, in the case of disease, an irrevocable sentence. The true end and purpose of this, as of all divine punishments, was not revenge for the sin, but the ultimate recovery of the sinner.

Verse 20. - Delivered for have delivered, A.V.; might be taught for may learn, A.V. Hymenaeus; probably the same as is mentioned 2 Timothy 2:17, 18, as holding heretical doctrine concerning the resurrection, and overthrowing the faith of some. It is an uncommon name, though borne by a Bishop of Alexandria in the second century, and by a Bishop of Jerusalem in the third. Alexander; doubtless the same as "Alexander the coppersmith" of 2 Timothy 4:14. I delivered unto Satan. The passages in Scripture which throw light on this difficult phrase are, chiefly, the following: the almost identical passage, 1 Corinthians 5:5; Job 1:12; Job 2:6, 7; Luke 13:10; Acts 5:5, 10; Acts 10:38; Acts 13:11; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:7; and Hebrews 2:14. Putting these together, it appears that sickness and bodily infirmity and death are, within certain limits, in the power of Satan to inflict. And that the apostles were able, on fitting occasions, to hand over peccant members of the Church to this power of Satan, that by such discipline "the spirit might be saved." In the case of Hymenaeus and Alexander (as in that of the incestuous person at Corinth), the punishment incident on this delivery to Satan would appear to have been short or' death, but in the case of the two first not to have had the effect of bringing them to a true repentance. Might be taught (παιδευθῶσι); viz. by correction and punishment, as children are taught (Hebrews 12:6-8). The metaphor in the word κολαφίζειν (2 Corinthians 12:7) is similar.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Among [them]
ὧν (hōn)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

are
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

Hymenaeus
Ὑμέναιος (Hymenaios)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5211: Hymenaeus. From Humen; 'hymeneal'; Hymeneus, an opponent of Christianity.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Alexander,
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexandros)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 223: From the same as alektor and aner; man-defender; Alexander, the name of three Israelites and one other man.

whom
οὓς (hous)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

I have handed over
παρέδωκα (paredōka)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3860: From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit.

to Satan
Σατανᾷ (Satana)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4567: An adversary, Satan. Of Chaldee origin corresponding to ma'bad; the accuser, i.e. The devil.

to
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

be taught
παιδευθῶσιν (paideuthōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 3811: From pais; to train up a child, i.e. Educate, or, discipline.

not
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

to blaspheme.
βλασφημεῖν (blasphēmein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 987: From blasphemos; to vilify; specially, to speak impiously.


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