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,
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,
- 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,
- 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 who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- 2 Pet 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
- Jude 1:18They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
- Titus 1:11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
- Mark 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
- 1 Cor 12:2You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
- Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
- Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
- 1 Tim 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Ps 38:4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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