New English Translation
1 Timothy 5:15
15For some have already wandered away 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
13And besides that, going around from house to house they learn to be lazy, and they are not only lazy, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not. 14So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us. For some have already wandered away to follow Satan. 16If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need. 17Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.
Read all of 1 Timothy 51 Timothy 5:15 word by word
ἤδη γάρ τινες ἐξετράπησαν ὀπίσω τοῦ σατανᾶ.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Timothy 5:15
- Philippians 3:18For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
- 2 Timothy 1:15You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Timothy 2:18They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.
- 2 Timothy 4:10For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.
- 2 Peter 2:2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
- 2 Peter 3:16speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.
- 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you – men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe – ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 12:9So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along 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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