2 Timothy 3:6

Appeal to Timothy for pure doctrine in view of the worse doctrines to come

6. For of this sort For of these, the reason of the warning; the mischief has begun.

which creep into The verb occurs only here in N.T., but is classical.

lead captive For the primary sense cf. Luke 21:24; for the derived, Romans 7:23; 2 Corinthians 10:5.

silly women The neuter gender and the diminutive ending of the word here indicate the degraded contemptible state to which they have come. Vulg. -mulierculas"; -womanlings," Farrar.

laden with sins The simple verb occurs only Romans 12:20, where it is quoted from LXX., Proverbs 25:22 -thou shalt heap coals of fire"; the compound verb in 2 Timothy 4:3. Why such women especially? Their burdened conscience lays them open to any proselytisers who promise relief.

led away with divers lusts Apparently the meaning is (not -lusts of the flesh" but rather) as in 2 Timothy 4:3, which Wordsworth explains of persons -who in their prurient craving for something new, to stimulate and gratify their diseased appetite, accumulate to themselves a promiscuous heap of self-chosen teachers." -Led" belongs to -women"; it occurs with the same construction, Romans 8:14.