2 Timothy 3:6
King James Version
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
led away with divers lusts,
Who are captive, silly women?
Why must we flee from them?
Only SPIRIT can make things clear, through Scripture.
Here are various Bible versions, that explain what "captive silly women" mean:
2 Timothy 3:6
American Standard Version
6 For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Amplified Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
BRG Bible
6 For 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
Christian Standard Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
Common English Bible
6 Some will slither into households and control immature women who are burdened with sins and driven by all kinds of desires.
2 Timothy 3:6
Complete Jewish Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
Contemporary English Version
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
Darby Translation
6 For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
For They Deceive The Ignorant And Oppose The Truth
6 For from these are the ones creeping into the houses and taking-captive little-women[a]— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires,
2 Timothy 3:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
6 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:
2 Timothy 3:6
Easy-to-Read Version
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
English Standard Version
6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
2 Timothy 3:6
Expanded Bible
6 [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.
2 Timothy 3:6
1599 Geneva Bible
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive simple women laden with sins, and led with divers lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Good News Translation
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
International Children’s Bible
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
International Standard Version
6 For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.
2 Timothy 3:6-9
J.B. Phillips New Testament
6-9 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
Jubilee Bible 2000
6 For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Lexham English Bible
6 For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,
2 Timothy 3:6
Living Bible
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6-9
The Message
6-9 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
Modern English Version
6 Those of this nature creep into houses and captivate silly women who are burdened with sins and led away with various desires,
2 Timothy 3:6
Names of God Bible
6 Some of these men go into homes and mislead weak-minded women who are burdened with sins and led by all kinds of desires.
2 Timothy 3:6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,
2 Timothy 3:6
New American Standard Bible
6 For among them are those who [a]slip into households and captivate [b]weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
2 Timothy 3:6
New Catholic Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
New Century Version
6 Some of them go into homes and get control of silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires.
2 Timothy 3:6
New English Translation
6 For some of these insinuate themselves[a] into households and captivate weak women[b] who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.
2 Timothy 3:6
New International Reader's Version
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
New International Version
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
New King James Version
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
New Life Version
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
New Living Translation
6 They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of[a] vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires.
2 Timothy 3:6
New Matthew Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
New Revised Standard Version
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
New Testament for Everyone
6 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,
Timotiyos II 3:6
Orthodox Jewish Bible
6 For of such are the morim entering into homes and capturing weak-willed nashim laden with chatta’im, led away by various ta’avot,
2 Timothy 3:6
Revised Geneva Translation
6 For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate simple women laden with sins; led by diverse lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Revised Standard Version
6 For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
2 Timothy 3:6
Tree of Life Version
6 For among these are those who slip into households and deceive weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various desires,
2 Timothy 3:6
The Voice
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
World English Bible
6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6
Worldwide English (New Testament)
6 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.
2 Timothy 3:6
Wycliffe Bible
6 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,
2 Timothy 3:6
Young's Literal Translation
6 for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
In SUMMARY, here's what "captive silly women" mean:
silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts
morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses
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
silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts
gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions
immature women who are burdened with sins and driven by all kinds of desires
weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses
women who are slaves of sin and are controlled by all sorts of desires
silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts
little-women[a]— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires
silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires
weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want
vulnerable women who are overwhelmed with sins, led astray by various evil desires
weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions
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
simple women laden with sins, and led with divers lusts
weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires
idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions
weak women who are full of sin. They are led to sin by the many evil desires they have
foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires
silly women with an exaggerated sense of sin and morbid cravings
silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts
foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires
silly, sin-burdened women and teach them their new doctrines
unstable and needy women, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth”
silly women who are burdened with sins and led away with various desires
weak-minded women who are burdened with sins and led by all kinds of desires
women weighed down by sins, led by various desires
weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses
women there who are burdened by their sins and obsessed with their desires
silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires
weak women[b] who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passion
These women are loaded down with sins. They give in to all kinds of evil desires.
gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires
gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts
foolish women who are loaded down with sins and all kinds of sinful desires
vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires
women laden with sin, which women are led by divers desires and lusts
silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires
foolish women who are overwhelmed with their sins and are pulled and pushed by all kinds of desires
weak-willed nashim laden with chatta’im, led away by various ta’avot
simple women laden with sins; led by diverse lusts
weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses
weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various desires
vulnerable women, women gaudy with sin, weak and easily swayed by their desires
gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts
These women know that they have done many wrong things. And they want to do many kinds of wrong things.
little women captive] charged with sins, which be led with diverse desires
silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold
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