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2 Timothy 3:6
2 Timothy 3:6 is verse 6 of 2 Timothy chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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,
King James Version
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
World English Bible
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
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2 Timothy 3:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
6 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,
7 who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Titus 1:11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
1 Corinthians 12:2You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
2 Peter 3:17Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
Mark 4:19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”