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,
2 Timothy 3:6 in other translations
| 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, |
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| 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, |
| YLT | for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold, |
| DARBY | For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, |
| BBE | 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, |
| Webster | For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts; |
What does 2 Timothy 3:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
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 imposter 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 on. 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-- επιθυμιαις --such as pride, vanity, the love of novelty, or a susceptibility to flattery, so as to make them an easy prey to deceivers.
(d) "creep" Tit 1:16
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Even in gospel times there would be perilous times; on account of persecution from without, still more on account of corruptions within. Men love to gratify their own lusts, more than to please God and do their duty. When every man is eager for what he can get, and anxious to keep what he has, this makes men dangerous to one another. When men do not fear God, they will not regard man. When children are disobedient…
2 Timothy 3:6 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 2 Timothy 3:6
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 12:2
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
- 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.
- Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- 1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- 2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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Context
- 2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- 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,
- 2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque de éstos son los que se entran por las casas, y llevan cautivas las mujercillas cargadas de pecados, llevadas de diversas concupiscencias; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car d’entre eux sont ceux qui s’introduisent dans les maisons et qui mènent captives des femmelettes chargées de péchés, entraînées par des convoitises diverses, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn aus diesen sind, die sich in die Häuser schleichen und Weiblein gefangen nehmen, welche, mit Sünden beladen, von mancherlei Lüsten getrieben werden, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ex his enim sunt qui penetrant domos, et captivas ducunt mulierculas oneratas peccatis, quæ ducuntur variis desideriis: |