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,
Parallel translations
- 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,
- KJV For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
- NKJV 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,
- NASB For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
- NLT 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.
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Quick answer
Among these are men who worm their way into homes and capture vulnerable, sin-burdened people swayed by various desires. False teachers prey on the spiritually weak.
Overview
Paul describes the predatory tactics of false teachers who target those weighed down by sin and unstable in faith. Their method is deceptive infiltration rather than open teaching. The verse warns the church to recognize and resist such manipulators who exploit the vulnerable.
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- 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.
- 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 Pet 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.
- Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
- Titus 1:11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
- 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.
- Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
- 1 Cor 12:2You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
- Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- 2 Pet 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.
- Isa 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.
- 1 Tim 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.
- Matt 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Ps 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
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