New King James Version
1 Timothy 5:15
15For some have already turned aside after 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 Living Translation (NLT)For I am afraid that some of them have already gone astray and now follow Satan.
Context of 1 Timothy 5:15
13And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. 14Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some have already turned aside after Satan. 16If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows. 17Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.
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 walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
- 2 Timothy 1:15This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Timothy 2:18who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
- 2 Timothy 4:10for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
- 2 Peter 2:2And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
- 2 Peter 3:16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
- 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Revelation 12:9So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out 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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