2 Timothy 3:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

2 Timothy 3:6 —

Old words in this verse

silly: — simple, easily misled.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jude 1:4
For 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.
2 Peter 3:17
Ye 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.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Topics

Adultery Affections Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Apostasy Backsliders Brotherly Kindness Care Carnal Mindedness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Timothy must not think it strange if there were in the church bad men; for the net of the gospel was to enclose both good fish and bad, Matt. 13:47, 48. Jesus Christ had foretold (Matt. 24:1-51) that there would come seducers, and therefore we must not be offended at it, nor think the worse of religion or the church for it. Even in gold ore there will be dross, and a great deal of chaff among the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. of this sort--Greek, “of these,” such as were described (2Ti 3:5). creep into--stealthily. laden with sins--(Is 1:4); applying to the “silly women” whose consciences are burdened with sins, and so are a ready prey to the false teachers who promise ease of conscience if they will follow them. A bad conscience leads easily to shipwreck of faith (1Ti 1:19). divers lusts--not only animal lusts, but…