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For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,(A) who are always studying yet never able to recognize truth. As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth.(B) But they will not make much progress because, as in the case of those two men,[a] their folly will become plain to everyone.

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  1. 3.9 Gk lacks two men

For among them are those who [a](A)slip into households and captivate [b](B)weak women weighed down with sins, led on by (C)various impulses, always learning and never able to (D)come to the [c]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, [d]worthless in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress; for their (H)foolishness will be obvious to all, just (I)as was that also of [e]Jannes and Jambres.

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  1. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or creep into
  2. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or idle
  3. 2 Timothy 3:7 Or recognition
  4. 2 Timothy 3:8 Or unfit
  5. 2 Timothy 3:9 Lit those