2 Timothy 3:6 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 3:6

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,

BSB

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ASV

For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book I (202)

Some of his disciples, too, addicting themselves to the same practices, have deceived many silly women, and defiled them. They proclaim themselves as being "perfect," so that no one can be compared to them with respect to the immensity of their knowledge, nor even were you to mention Paul or Peter, or any other of the apostles. They assert that they themselves know more than all others, and that they alone have imbibed the greatness of the knowledge of that power which is unspeakable.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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).

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐκ	ek	Out of	G1537 →
τούτων	toutōn	this sort	G3778 →
γάρ	gar	for	G1063 →
εἰσιν	eisin	are	G1510 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
ἐνδύνοντες	endunontes	entering	G1744 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
οἰκίας	oikias	households	G3614 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αἰχμαλωτίζοντες	aichmalōtizontes	being captured	G163 →
γυναικάρια	gunaikaria	weak women	G1133 →
σεσωρευμένα	sesōreumena	burdened	G4987 →
ἁμαρτίαις,	hamartiais	with sins,	G266 →
ἀγόμενα	agomena	being led away	G71 →
ἐπιθυμίαις	epithumiais	by passions	G1939 →
ποικίλαις,	poikilais	various,	G4164 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G1939epithumiaisby passions38×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jude 1:4
For 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…
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:1–3
  Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
- Galatians 2:4
  This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- 2 Peter 2:10
  Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
- Titus 1:15–16
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Through
Jude 1:18
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
leads to
- 2 Peter 3:3
  Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
Through
Titus 3:3
For 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.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:1–3
  And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Colossians 1:21
  Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
- Romans 6:17
  But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.