2 Timothy 3:6

World English Bible (2000)

For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For 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.
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Matt 23:13 : 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.
  • Mark 4:19 : 19 and 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.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
  • 2 Pet 3:17 : 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But 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.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, 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;
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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    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;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-5
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    4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

  • 1 Tim 5:13
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    13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

  • 2 Pet 2:14-15
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    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

    2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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    26and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

  • Jude 1:4
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    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.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

  • Jude 1:18-19
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    18They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

    19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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    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.

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    3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

    4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

    5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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    13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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    3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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    26These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

    17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

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    1But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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    3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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    6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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    3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

  • 1 Tim 5:15
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    15For already some have turned aside after Satan.

  • Col 2:4
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    4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

  • Acts 20:30
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    30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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    11But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;