1 Timothy 5:6

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Summary

1 Timothy 5:6

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

She

Revelation 18:7

In pleasure

Luke 7:25

Dead

Revelation 3:1

Bible References

She

"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'

"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.'

In pleasure

"But what you went out to behold? A man clothed in soft robes? Behold, men who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are in kings' palaces.

Dead

"Follow me," Jesus said to him, "and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

"'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again??e was lost and is found.'

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"

And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,

To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead.