1 Timothy 5:6

Instructions About Widows

⁵ Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night. ⁶ But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives. ⁷ Command these things that they may be without reproach.

As Good as Dead

Luke 15:24

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

James 5:5

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

Revelation 3:1

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.

Deuteronomy 28:54

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.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The kindest and most sensitive woman among you, so sensitive and tender that she would not even step on an ant, will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter.

1 Samuel 15:32

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

1 Samuel 25:6

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

Job 21:11-15

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

Psalm 73:5-7

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

Proverbs 29:21

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.

Isaiah 22:13

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.

Isaiah 47:1

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.

Jeremiah 6:2

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

Lamentations 4:5

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.

Amos 6:5-6

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

Matthew 8:22

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

Luke 7:25

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

Luke 12:19

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

Luke 15:13

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.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate and be happy. Your brother was dead. Now he is alive! He was lost and now he has been found!'

Luke 16:19

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

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

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

Ephesians 2:1

You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

Ephesians 5:14

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

Colossians 2:13

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.

Revelation 18:7

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.'