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King James Version

2 Timothy 3:6

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Affections;   Apostasy;   Captivity;   Character;   Doctrines;   Fellowship;   Lasciviousness;   Minister, Christian;   Seduction;   Wicked (People);   Women;   Worldliness;   Scofield Reference Index - Apostasy;   The Topic Concordance - Corruption;   Folly;   Knowledge;   Last Days;   Manifestation;   Resistance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affections, the;   Character of the Wicked;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Magic;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Idol;   Miracles;   Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Titus, Epistle to;   2 Thessalonians;   2 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jude, Epistle of;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gnosticism;   Lust;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Truth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Perilous Times;   Prophets, the;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Captive;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captive;   Gnosticism;   Pastoral Epistles, the;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 9;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
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.
Revised Standard Version
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
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
Hebrew Names Version
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
New American Standard Bible
For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
New Century Version
Some of them go into homes and get control of silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires.
Update Bible Version
For of these are those that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by diverse desires,
Webster's Bible Translation
For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;
English Standard Version
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
World English Bible
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
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,
Weymouth's New Testament
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,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of these thei ben that persen housis, and leden wymmen caitifs chargid with synnes, whiche ben led with dyuerse desiris, euere more lernynge,
English Revised Version
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
Berean Standard Bible
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
Contemporary English Version
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.
Amplified Bible
For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,
American Standard Version
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
Bible in Basic English
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,
Complete Jewish Bible
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,
Darby Translation
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
International Standard Version
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]
Etheridge Translation
For of them are they who creep into houses, and captivate women who are overladen with sins, and led away by divers lusts;
Murdock Translation
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,
King James Version (1611)
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and leade captiue silly women laden with sinnes, led away with diuers lusts,
New Living Translation
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.
New Life Bible
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.
New Revised Standard
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,
Geneva Bible (1587)
For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes, and led with diuers lustes,
George Lamsa Translation
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate women sunken in sin, led away with divers lusts,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, of these, are they who enter into the houses, and captivate silly women, women laden with sins, led on by manifold covetings,
Douay-Rheims Bible
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:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are they, which enter into houses, & leade captiue [simple] women laden with sinne, caryed with diuers lustes:
Good News Translation
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,
Christian Standard Bible®
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,
Lexham English Bible
For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,
Literal Translation
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,
Young's Literal Translation
for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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,
Mace New Testament (1729)
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,
THE MESSAGE
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.
New English Translation
For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
New King James Version
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,
Simplified Cowboy Version
These cowboys are really snakes that slither into vulnerable women's homes with empty promises and lustful desires.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
Legacy Standard Bible
For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,

Contextual Overview

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 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. 6 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. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

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

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

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

חולדא, "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 “creep into,” is rendered by Doddridge, “insinuate themselves;” by Bloomfield, “wind their way into,” in the manner of serpents; by Bretschneider, “deceitfully enter;” by Robinson and Passow,” go in, enter in.” It is not certain that the idea of deceit or cunning is contained in this “word,” 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 “silly women,” means properly “little women,” and then “weak women.”

Laden with sins - With so many sins that they seem to be “burdened” 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 - ἐπιθυμίας 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.


 
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