2 Timothy 3:6
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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:

of this.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Titus 1:11 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Jude 1:4 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

laden.

Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Matthew 11:28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

led.

1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.

divers.

Mark 4:19 And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

1 Timothy 6:9 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

2 Peter 2:18 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Jude 1:16,18 These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake. . . .

Context
Evil in the Last Days
5Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid. 6For of these sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires: 7Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

1 Timothy 5:6
For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

Titus 1:11
Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Jude 1:4
For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Lexicon
They are
εἰσιν (eisin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

the kind who
τούτων (toutōn)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

worm their way
ἐνδύνοντες (endynontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 1744: To clothe; mid: I enter, creep into. From ennomos and duno; to sink (compare enduo) on, i.e. (figuratively) sneak.

into
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

households
οἰκίας (oikias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3614: From oikos; properly, residence, but usually an abode; by implication, a family.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

captivate
αἰχμαλωτίζοντες (aichmalōtizontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 163: To take captive (in war); I subdue, ensnare. From aichmalotos; to make captive.

vulnerable women
γυναικάρια (gynaikaria)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 1133: A woman, with all a woman's weakness, a poor weak woman, a silly woman. A diminutive from gune; a little woman.

who are weighed down
σεσωρευμένα (sesōreumena)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 4987: To heap up, load. From another form of soros; to pile up.

with sins
ἁμαρτίαις (hamartiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 266: From hamartano; a sin.

[and] led astray
ἀγόμενα (agomena)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 71: A primary verb; properly, to lead; by implication, to bring, drive, go, pass, or induce.

by various
ποικίλαις (poikilais)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 4164: Various, of different colors, diverse, various. Of uncertain derivation; motley, i.e. Various in character.

passions,
ἐπιθυμίαις (epithymiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.


Additional Translations
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

For out of this sort are those entering into households and taking captive weak women, burdened with sins, being led away by various passions,

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

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 they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led 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 of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;

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,

For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
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