For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
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,
- 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,
- 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 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 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- 2 Pet 3:17Ye 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 1:18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
- Mark 4:19And 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.
- Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
- 1 Cor 12:2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
- Matt 23:13But 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.
- 2 Pet 2:18For 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.
- Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
- 1 Tim 6:9But 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.
- Matt 11:28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- Ps 38:4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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