2 Timothy  

"For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak (or idle) women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses" (2 Timothy 3:6 NASB1995).

Here, Paul is speaking on what is to come, noting many issues that will arise in the church (2 Timothy 3:1). Of the many issues that will arise, Paul speaks of "weak" or "idle" women. The actual Greek word here is "γυναικάρια", and it has a certain connotation. As one scholar writes, "[they] take their advantages upon women, (the weaker sex), and not the wisest of them, but gunaikaria, the diminutive word, is used to vilify; the little despicable women, of no judgment in sound religion, whom they by their tongues and pleasing errors make their captives" (Poole). The idea here is that women, as during this time they were uneducated, would fall into the deception of false prophets. This is not to say that men will never follow a false prophet; rather, as Dr. Keener explains, "women were usually less educated, they were more susceptible than men to false teaching ... Paul here addresses particular, not all, women" (626-627).

Due to such guilt these women feel, they will be "particularly susceptible to both the asceticism ... and the antinomianism ... set forth by the false teachers" (Crossway 2341).