2 Timothy 3:6

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
KJV
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
WEB
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
ASV
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
DARBY
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
BLB
For out of these are those slipping into households and taking captive weak women, heaped up with sins, being led by various passions,
ÅB
For til dem hører de som lurer seg inn i husene og fanger kvinnfolk som er tynget av synder og drives av mangehånde lyster
OTB
For blant dem er de som sniker seg inn i husene og fanger sårbare kvinner som er tynget av synder, drevet av mange lyster,
B1930
For til dem hører de som lurer sig inn i husene og fanger kvinnfolk som er tynget av synder og drives av mangehånde lyster

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jude 1:4

    For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  • Titus 3:3

    For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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  • 2 Peter 3:17

    Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

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  • Jude 1:18

    How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

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  • Titus 1:11

    Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

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  • Mark 4:19

    And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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  • 1 Corinthians 12:2

    Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

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  • Jude 1:16

    These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

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