Will eat (νομην εξε). "Will have (future active of εχω) pasturage or increase" (νομη, old word from νεμω, to pasture, in N.T. only…

And their word. The word, or the discourses of those who love vain and idle disputations.

Will eat as does a canker. A mar…

And their word will eat as doth a canker.—Better rendered, as in the margin of the English translation, as doth a gan…

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker:

In these three verses the apostle describes the heretical teachers. He warns Timothy to “avoid [GK 4325] godless chatter” (cf. [Reference 1 Timothy…

And their word will eat as a gangrene. I have been told by Benedict Textor, a physician, that this passage is incorrectly translated by Er…

And their word will eat as does a cancer
Or "gangrene", which gnaws and feeds upon the flesh, inflames and mortifies…

Those disposed to argue commonly do so about matters of little importance. But strifes of words destroy the things of God. The apostle mentions som…

1. Previously, the Apostle instructed Timothy about the general method of resisting unbelievers; here he shows in detail what should be resi…