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A Life of Self-Indulgence
Commentators clarify that "living in pleasure" is not about simple happiness but a lifestyle of luxury, idleness, and self-indulgence. It describes someone who, freed from other responsibilities, pursues a life of ease and pampered appetites rather than devotion and service to God.
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1 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Timothy 5:6
18th Century
Theologian
But she that liveth in pleasure. The marginal note reads, "delicately." The Greek word spatalaw occurs nowhere else in the New Te…
AT Robertson
On 1 Timothy 5:6
She that giveth herself to pleasure (η σπαταλωσα). Present active participle of σπλαταλαω, late verb (Polybius) from σπαταλη (riot…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Timothy 5:6
19th Century
Bishop
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.—This is a thoroughly Pauline thought, set forth in other langua…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Timothy 5:6
In contrast with that picture is this statement: But the widow who lives luxuriously or self-indulgently “is dead even while she lives.” 7–8 Timoth…
John Calvin
On 1 Timothy 5:6
16th Century
Theologian
She who is in luxury. After having described the marks by which real widows may be known, he now contrasts them with others that ought not…
John Gill
On 1 Timothy 5:6
17th Century
Pastor
But she that lives in pleasure
Voluptuously, and deliciously; lives a wanton, loose, and licentious life, serving di…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Timothy 5:3–8
17th Century
Minister
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 a…