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

In pleasure

Luke 7:25

Dead

Revelation 3:1

Bible References

She

Say to him: 'May you live long! May you, your home, and all you have prosper!

They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued with problems like mankind.

Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David you improvise on musical instruments.

I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'

In a short time the younger son sold his share of the property. He left home with the money and traveled to a far away country where he wasted his money in reckless living.

A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'

In pleasure

The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites, Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. Surely, the bitterness of death is past, Agag said.

The man who (carefully) brings up (pays close attention to) (nourishes) his servant from childhood will in the future have him become like his son.

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

I will destroy the beautiful and luxurious one, the daughter of Zion.

Those used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets. Those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

What did you go to see, a man clothed in fancy clothes? Only kings dress in fancy clothes.

Dead

But Jesus said to him: Follow me; and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died.

You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.

For this reason it says: Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

To the angel of the congregation in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are [really] dead.