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2 Timothy 3:6
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KJ21
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
ASV
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
AMP
For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,
AMPC
For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate silly and weak-natured and spiritually dwarfed women, loaded down with [the burden of their] sins [and easily] swayed and led away by various evil desires and seductive impulses.
BRG
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
CSB
For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,
CSBA
For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,
CEB
Some will slither into households and control immature women who are burdened with sins and driven by all kinds of desires.
CJB
For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,
CEV
Some men fool whole families, just to get power over those women who are slaves of sin and are controlled by all sorts of desires.
DARBY
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
DLNT
For from these are the ones creeping into the houses and taking-captive little-women— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires,
DRA
For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:
ERV
Some of them go into homes and get control over weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want.
EASY
Among those people, there are some men who find a way into people's homes. They get power over silly women who feel very guilty about their sins. Those women want to do wrong things and they cannot stop themselves.
EHV
For some of them are people who worm their way into households and gain control over vulnerable women who are overwhelmed with sins, led astray by various evil desires,
ESV
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
ESVUK
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
EXB
[L For] Some of them ·go [sneak; worm their way; talk their way] into homes and ·get control of [captivate; gain influence over] ·silly [vulnerable; or idle] women who are ·full of [or burdened with (the guilt of)] sin and are ·led [swayed; controlled] by ·many [all kinds of] evil desires.
GNV
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive simple women laden with sins, and led with divers lusts,
GW
Some of these men go into homes and mislead weak-minded women who are burdened with sins and led by all kinds of desires.
GNT
Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
HCSB
For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,
ICB
Some of them go into homes and get control of weak women who are full of sin. They are led to sin by the many evil desires they have.
ISV
For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.
PHILLIPS
From their number come those creatures who worm their way into people’s houses, and find easy prey in silly women with an exaggerated sense of sin and morbid cravings—who are always learning and yet never able to grasp the truth. These men are as much enemies to the truth as Jannes and Jambres were to Moses. Their minds are distorted, and they are traitors to the faith. But in the long run they won’t get far. Their folly will become as obvious to everybody as did that of Moses’ opponents.
JUB
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with 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,
AKJV
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
LSB
For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,
LEB
For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,
TLB
They are the kind who craftily sneak into other people’s homes and make friendships with silly, sin-burdened women and teach them their new doctrines.
MSG
These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.
MEV
Those of this nature creep into houses and captivate silly women who are burdened with sins and led away with various desires,
MOUNCE
For some of these are · creeping into the homes and capturing weak women who have been burdened with sins, being led astray by various passions,
NOG
Some of these men go into homes and mislead weak-minded women who are burdened with sins and led by all kinds of desires.
NABRE
For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,
NASB
For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
NASB1995
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
NCB
They are the type who insinuate themselves into households and gain control of the women there who are burdened by their sins and obsessed with their desires,
NCV
Some of them go into homes and get control of silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires.
NET
For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
NIRV
They are the kind who trick their way into the homes of some women. These women are ready to believe anything. And they take control over these women. These women are loaded down with sins. They give in to all kinds of evil desires.
NIV
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
NIVUK
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
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,
NLV
These are the kind of people who go from house to house. They talk to foolish women who are loaded down with sins and all kinds of sinful desires.
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.
NMB
Of this sort are those who enter into houses and bring into bondage women laden with sin, which women are led by divers desires and lusts,
NRSVA
For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
NRSVACE
For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
NRSVCE
For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
NRSVUE
For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
NTFE
This group, you see, includes those who worm their way into people’s houses and ensnare foolish women who are overwhelmed with their sins and are pulled and pushed by all kinds of desires,
OJB
For of such are the morim entering into homes and capturing weak-willed nashim laden with chatta’im, led away by various ta’avot,
RGT
For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate simple women laden with sins; led by diverse lusts,
RSV
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
RSVCE
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
TLV
For among these are those who slip into households and deceive weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various desires,
VOICE
They’re snakes slithering into the houses of vulnerable women, women gaudy with sin, to seduce them. These reptiles can capture them because these women are weak and easily swayed by their desires.
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,
WE
They are the kind who go quietly into people's houses. There they get foolish women to believe them. These women know that they have done many wrong things. And they want to do many kinds of wrong things.
WYC
Of these they be that pierce houses, and lead women captives [and lead little women captive] charged with sins, which be led with diverse desires,
YLT
for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
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