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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
But she that liveth in pleasure. The marginal note reads, "delicately." The Greek word spatalaw occurs nowhere else in the New Te…
She that giveth herself to pleasure (η σπαταλωσα). Present active participle of σπλαταλαω, late verb (Polybius) from σπαταλη (riot…
19th Century
Anglican
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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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But she that lives in pleasure Voluptuously, and deliciously; lives a wanton, loose, and licentious life, serving di…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle instructed Timothy on the use of and abstinence from foods; here he instructs him on the distribution of provisio…
