Tree of Life Version
1 Timothy 5:6
6But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
1 Timothy 5:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
- New International Version (NIV)But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
Context of 1 Timothy 5:6
4but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show devotion to their own home and give back to their parents, for this is pleasing before God. 5Now she who is really a widow and has been left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. 7Insist on these things, so that they might be beyond criticism. 8But if anyone does not provide for his own, especially those in his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Cross-references for 1 Timothy 5:6
- 1 Samuel 25:6Thus you will say: ‘Long life! And shalom to you, shalom to your house and shalom to all that is yours.
- Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock and their children dance.
- Psalms 73:5They have none of humanity’s trouble, nor are they plagued like others.
- Isaiah 22:13But instead, there is joy and gladness, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, meat and drinking wine! “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!”
- Amos 6:5chanting to the sound of harp like David, inventing their own instruments of song,
- Luke 12:19And I’ll say to myself, ’O my soul, you have plenty of goods saved up for many years! So take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry.”’
- Luke 15:13“Not many days later, the younger son gathered everything and traveled to a far country, and there he squandered his inheritance on wild living.
- Luke 16:19“Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, living it up in luxury every day.
- James 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
- Revelation 18:7As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see grief.’
- Deuteronomy 28:54The most tender and delicate man among you—his eye will become evil against his brother and the wife of his bosom and the rest of his children that he has left.
- 1 Samuel 15:32Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag the king of Amalek.” Agag approached him in chains, thinking, “Surely bitter death has turned back.”
- Proverbs 29:21If someone pampers his slave from childhood in the end he will be ungrateful.
- Isaiah 47:1Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called tender and delicate.
- Jeremiah 6:2“The lovely, delicate Daughter of Zion I will cut off.”
- Lamentations 4:5Those who used to eat delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace trash heaps.
Commentaries on 1 Timothy 5:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6But she that liveth in pleasure - ̔ · She that liveth delicately - voluptuously indulging herself with dainties; it does not indicate grossly criminal pleasures; but simply means one who indulges herself in good eating and drinking, pampering her body at the expense of her mind. The word is used in reference to what we term petted and spoiled children; and a remarkable passage, is produced by Kypke, from an epistle of Theanus to Eubulus, found in Opusc…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6But she that liveth in pleasure - Margin, “delicately.” The Greek word ( ́ spatalaō) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, except in James 5:5, “Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth.” It properly means to live in luxury, voluptuously; to indulge freely in eating and drinking; to yield to the indulgence of the appetites. It does not indicate grossly criminal pleasures; but the kind of pleasure connected with luxurious living, and with pampering the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-8Verses 3-8 Honour widows that are widows indeed, relieve them, and maintain them. It is the duty of children, if their parents are in need, and they are able to relieve them, to do it to the utmost of their power. Widowhood is a desolate state; but let widows trust in the Lord, and continue in prayer. All who live in pleasure, are dead while they live, spiritually dead, dead in trespasses and sins. Alas, what numbers there are of this description among…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6but she who lives for pleasure: Some widows in Ephesus lived only for pleasure. They cared more about receiving than giving to others (see also 6:17–19; James 5:5). They did not need support.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. she that liveth in pleasure--the opposite of such a widow as is described in 1Ti 5:5, and therefore one utterly undeserving of Church charity. The Greek expresses wanton prodigality and excess [Tittmann]. The root expresses weaving at a fast rate, and so lavish excess (see on Jas 5:5). dead while she liveth--dead in the Spirit while alive in the flesh (Mt 8:22; Ep 5:14).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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