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For among them are those who [a](A)enter into households and take captive [b](B)weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by (C)various desires, always learning and never able to (D)come to the [c]full knowledge of the truth. Just as (E)Jannes and Jambres (F)opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, (G)men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress, for their (H)folly will be obvious to all, just (I)as theirs was also.

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  1. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or creep
  2. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or idle
  3. 2 Timothy 3:7 Or recognition

They are the kind who worm their way(A) into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.(B) Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,(C) so also these teachers oppose(D) the truth. They are men of depraved minds,(E) who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men,(F) their folly will be clear to everyone.

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