1 Timothy 5:6

A widow who lives for self-indulgence is spiritually dead even while physically alive. Pleasure-seeking is the opposite of the prayerful dependence Paul has just commended.

Cross-references · 27

• Jas 5:5You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
• Rev 3:1“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
• Rev 18:7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
• Luke 15:24For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
• Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
• Eph 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Matt 8:22But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
• Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Ps 73:5–7They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
• Luke 15:13After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
• Isa 47:1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
• Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
• Deut 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
• Amos 6:5–6You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
• Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
• Lam 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
• Jer 6:2Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
• Luke 7:25Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
• 1 Sam 25:6and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.
• Job 21:11–15They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
• Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• Prov 29:21A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
• Deut 28:54The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
• 1 Sam 15:32Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
• Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Col 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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