'Creep' in the Bible

but the worries and cares of the world [the distractions of this age with its worldly pleasures], and the deceitfulness [and the false security or glamour] of wealth [or fame], and the passionate desires for all the other things creep in and choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,