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2 Timothy 3:6
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For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and leade captiue silly women laden with sinnes, led away with diuers lusts,
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
Some of them go into homes and get control of silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires.
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
Some men fool whole families, just to get power over those women who are slaves of sin and are controlled by all sorts of desires.
For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
Some of them go into homes and get control over weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want.
For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes, and led with diuers lustes,
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate women sunken in sin, led away with divers lusts,
Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,
For of these are those creeping into houses and leading silly women captive, the ones having been heaped with sins, being led away by various lusts,
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.Matthew 23:14; Titus 1:11;">[xr]
For of them are they who creep into houses, and captivate women who are overladen with sins, and led away by divers lusts;
For of them are they who creep into this and that house, and captivate the women who are plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts,
These are they, which enter into houses, & leade captiue [simple] women laden with sinne, caryed with diuers lustes:
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
From these also turn away. For of these are they who creep into houses, and captivate silly women laden with sins, led away by various desires,
Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,
Of these thei ben that persen housis, and leden wymmen caitifs chargid with synnes, whiche ben led with dyuerse desiris, euere more lernynge,
For of these are those that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by diverse desires,
For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;
For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
They are the kind who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires.
These are the kind of people who go from house to house. They talk to foolish women who are loaded down with sins and all kinds of sinful desires.
For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
For, of these, are they who enter into the houses, and captivate silly women, women laden with sins, led on by manifold covetings,
For of these sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
Of this sorte are they which entre in to houses and brynge into bondage wymmen laden with synne which wemen are ledde of divers lustes
for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
Of this sorte are they which rune fro house to house, & brynge in to bondage weme lade wt synne: which (wemen) are led with dyuerse lustes,
Of this number are they, who insinuate themselves into families, to make a prey of the weaker sex, who are inveigled by their vitious suggestions, abetted by their own subtle passions,
These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself "truth." They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.
These cowboys are really snakes that slither into vulnerable women's homes with empty promises and lustful desires.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
of this: Matthew 23:14, Titus 1:11, Jude 1:4
laden: Psalms 38:4, Isaiah 1:4, Matthew 11:28
led: 1 Corinthians 12:2, 2 Peter 3:17
divers: Mark 4:19, 1 Timothy 6:9, Titus 3:3, 2 Peter 2:18, Jude 1:16, Jude 1:18
Reciprocal: Job 5:2 - one Jeremiah 23:27 - think Amos 8:12 - shall run Mark 12:40 - devour Luke 20:47 - devour Galatians 2:4 - unawares Ephesians 4:14 - tossed 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold 2 Timothy 4:3 - but 2 John 1:10 - come
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.
Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."
when I saw among the spoils [in Jericho] a beautiful robe from Shinar (southern Babylon) and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I wanted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For of this sort are they which creep into houses,.... Privily and unawares, in a clandestine manner, and insinuate themselves into families, by fawning and flattering, and under specious pretences to knowledge and virtue. The Syriac version uses a word, from whence comes
×××××, "Chulda", which signifies "a weasel"; suggesting, that their entrance into houses was like to the way of that creature, which is sometimes covered, and sometimes open: there was also a gate of the temple, which was called "Huldah"; whether there is any allusion in the word to that, may be inquired k.
And lead captive silly women; the coming of antichrist is after the working of Satan; as Satan attacked the woman, and not the man, and beguiled Eve and not Adam, so these his instruments and emissaries, work themselves into the affections of the weaker vessel, and into the weaker sort of women, as the diminutive word here used signifies; and gain upon them, instil their principles into them, attach them to their interests, captivate them to them, and lead them as they please:
laden with sins; covered with them, full of them, and so ready to receive any set of principles that would encourage them to continue in them; or else were pressed down with a sense of them, their consciences being awakened, and they under some concern on account of them, and so fit persons for such deceivers to gain upon, by pretending to great sanctity and religion, and by providing them with pardons and indulgences, and putting them upon penance, c. though the former sense seems most agreeable, and is confirmed by what follows,
led away with divers lusts. The Alexandrian copy adds, "and pleasures" that is, sinful ones; though this may be understood, not of unclean lusts, but of the itch and desire after new teachers, and new doctrines, and practices, which prevail in weak women, and by which they are governed and led away.
k Vid. L. Empercur in Misn. Middot, c. 1. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For of this sort are they which creep into houses - Who go slyly and insidiously into families. They are not open and manly in endeavoring to propagate their views, but they endeavor by their address to ingratiate themselves first with weak women, and through them to influence men; compare Titus 1:11. The word translated âcreep into,â is rendered by Doddridge, âinsinuate themselves;â by Bloomfield, âwind their way into,â in the manner of serpents; by Bretschneider, âdeceitfully enter;â by Robinson and Passow,â go in, enter in.â It is not certain that the idea of deceit or cunning is contained in this âword,â yet the whole complexion of the passage implies that they made their way by art and deceitful tricks.
And lead captive silly women - One of the tricks always played by the advocates of error, and one of the ways by which they seek to promote their purposes. Satan began his work of temptation with Eve rather than with Adam, and the advocates of error usually follow his example. There are always weak-minded women enough in any community to give an opportunity of practicing these arts, and often the aims of the impostor and deceiver can be best secured by appealing to them. Such women are easily flattered; they are charmed by the graceful manners of religious instructors; they lend a willing ear to anything that has the appearance of religion, and their hearts are open to anything that promises to advance the welfare of the world. At the same time, they are just such persons as the propagators of error can rely upon. They have leisure; they have wealth; they are busy; they move about in society, and by their activity they obtain an influence to which they are by no means entitled by their piety or talents. There are, indeed, very many women in the world who cannot be so easily led away as men; but it cannot be denied also that there are those who are just adapted to the purposes of such as seek to spread plausible error. The word rendered âsilly women,â means properly âlittle women,â and then âweak women.â
Laden with sins - With so many sins that they seem to be âburdenedâ with them. The idea is, that they are under the influence of sinful desires and propensities, and hence, are better adapted to the purposes of deceivers.
Led away with divers lusts - With various kinds of passions or desires - εÌÏÎ¹Î¸Ï Î¼Î¹ÌÎ±Ï epithumias - such as pride, vanity, the love of novelty, or a susceptibility to flattery, so as to make them an easy prey to deceivers.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 6. For of this sort are they — He here refers to false teachers and their insinuating manners, practising upon weak women, who, seeing in them such a semblance of piety, entertain them with great eagerness, and at last become partakers with them in their impurities. Among the Jews there are remarkable cases of this kind on record, and not a few of them among the full fed monks of the Romish Church. But in what sect or party have not such teachers been occasionally found? yet neither Judaism, Protestantism, nor Roman Catholicism makes any provision for such men.
