Berean Standard Bible
1 Timothy 5:15
15For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
1 Timothy 5:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For some are already turned aside after Satan.
- New International Version (NIV)Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For some have already strayed after Satan.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For some have already turned aside after Satan.
Context of 1 Timothy 5:15
13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention. 14So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander. For some have already turned aside to follow Satan. 16If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need. 17Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
Read all of 1 Timothy 51 Timothy 5:15 word by word
ἤδη γάρ τινες ἐξετράπησαν ὀπίσω τοῦ σατανᾶ.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Timothy 5:15
- Philippians 3:18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
- 2 Timothy 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Timothy 2:18who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
- 2 Timothy 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- 2 Peter 2:2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
- 2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Commentaries on 1 Timothy 5:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15For some are already turned aside - Some of these young widows, for he appears to be still treating of them, are turned aside to idolatry, to follow Satan instead of Christ. Slight deviations, in the first instance, from a right line, may lead at last to an infinite distance from Christ.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15For some are already turned aside after Satan - That is, some young widows. The meaning is, that in the respects above mentioned 1 Timothy 5:13, they had followed the great Tempter, rather than the Lord Jesus. This is stated as a reason why they should not be admitted into the number of the widows who were to be maintained at the expense of the church, and to whom the care of the younger female members was to be committed.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 Every one brought into any office in the church, should be free from just censure; and many are proper objects of charity, yet ought not to be employed in public services. Those who would find mercy when they are in distress, must show mercy when they are in prosperity; and those who show most readiness for every good work, are most likely to be faithful in whatever is trusted to them. Those who are idle, very seldom are only idle, they make…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15already turned aside to follow Satan: They had turned away from Christ, probably because of false teachers and how they indulge themselves (1:6–7; compare 3:6–7; Hebrews 2:1; 1 Timothy 5:6, 13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. For--For in the case of some this result has already ensued; "Some (widows) are already turned aside after Satan," the seducer (not by falling away from the faith in general, but) by such errors as are stigmatized in 1Ti 5:11-13, sexual passion, idleness, &c., and so have given occasion of reproach (1Ti 5:14). "Satan finds some mischief still for the idle hands to do."Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Timothy 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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