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 5:5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
• Rev 3:1And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
• Rev 18:7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
• Luke 15:24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
• Eph 2:1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Matt 8:22But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
• Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Ps 73:5–7They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
• Luke 15:13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
• Isa 47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
• Eph 2:5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• Deut 28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
• Amos 6:5–6That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
• Isa 22:13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
• Lam 4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
• Jer 6:2I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
• Luke 7:25But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
• 1 Sam 25:6And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
• Job 21:11–15They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
• Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• Prov 29:21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
• Deut 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
• 1 Sam 15:32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
• Col 2:13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

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