2 Timothy 3:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

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  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Mark 4:19 : 19 And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
  • 2 Pet 3:17 : 17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

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  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

    19Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-5
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    4False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

  • 1 Tim 5:13
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    13And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

  • 2 Pet 2:14-15
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    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

    11By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

  • Jude 1:18-19
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    18How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

    19These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

    5Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • Titus 2:3-5
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    3That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

    4Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

    5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • 1 John 2:26
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    26I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • 1 Tim 3:6
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    6Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

  • 2 Tim 4:3
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    3For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

  • 1 Tim 5:15
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    15For even now some are turned away to Satan.

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

  • Acts 20:30
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    30And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;