1 Timothy 5:6 NLT,NIV,ESV

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Timothy 5:1-25

1 Timothy 5:24 Prof. Richard Moulton quotes this text in his exposition of 'The Merchant of Venice'. He says that 'the story contains a double Nemesis, attaching to the Jew himself and to his victim. The two moreover represent the different conceptions of Nemesis in the ancient and modern world: Antonio's excess of moral confidence suffers a nemesis of reaction in his humiliation, and Shylock's sin of judicial murder finds a nemesis of retribution in his ruin by process of law. The nemesis, it... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Timothy 5:1-25

V. INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 1. Concerning widows (1 Timothy 5:1-16 ) 2. Concerning elders (1 Timothy 5:17-21 ) 3. Responsibility and personal instructions (1 Timothy 5:22-25 ) 1 Timothy 5:1-16 It is not necessary to follow all these instructions in detail and explain their meaning. An elder was not to be rebuked sharply, but to be entreated as a father, and younger men as brethren. Then he speaks of widows. Those who are widows indeed are to be held in honor. Piety was to... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:6

5:6 {8} But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.(8) The third rule: let widows that live in pleasure, and neglect the care of their own family, be held and considered as fallers away from God and his religion, and worse than the unfaithful themselves. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:1-25

In this section we are faced with more detailed, practical responsibilities in reference to the various relationships in which one may be found. This is wholesome, sobering instruction. First, a young man must have a proper respect for an elder. It is certainly not necessarily an official elder of which the apostle speaks, for this would leave us with no true application of the instruction for today, there being no authority left us at all for the official appointment of elders. But any older... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:1-25

MATTERS ECCLESIASTICAL & SOCIAL Chapter 5 gives directions concerning Timothy’s management of church affairs, first, as to his behavior towards the older and younger members of the flock, of both sexes (1 Timothy 5:1-2 ). Secondly, as touching widows (1 Timothy 5:3-16 ). By “widows indeed,” 1 Timothy 5:3 , Paul means those who had no near relatives to support them (see v. 4-5), and who were trusting in God (1 Timothy 5:6 ). At this point the apostle turns from the widows themselves to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:1-8

(1) ¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; (2) The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. (3) ¶ Honour widows that are widows indeed. (4) But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. (5) Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:6

For she that liveth in pleasure, (i.e. that seeks to live in ease and plenty) is dead [3] while she is living, by the spiritual death of her soul in sin. See St. John Chrysostom with non less eloquence than piety, expounding this riddle, as he terms it, to wit, what it is to be at the same time alive and dead. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] St. John Chrysostom, ( Greek: log. ig. p. 301.) Greek: touto phusin ainigma, &c. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:3-8

3-8 Honour widows that are widows indeed, relieve them, and maintain them. It is the duty of children, if their parents are in need, and they are able to relieve them, to do it to the utmost of their power. Widowhood is a desolate state; but let widows trust in the Lord, and continue in prayer. All who live in pleasure, are dead while they live, spiritually dead, dead in trespasses and sins. Alas, what numbers there are of this description among nominal Christians, even to the latest period of... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:1-99

1Tim 5 TIMOTHY HAD BEEN entrusted with special responsibilities both as to teaching and as to order in the church. Consequently if he kept right and in a state of happy deliverance from these dangers he would be a minister of deliverance to many others. But then this might bring him into a measure of conflict with some. An elder even might need admonition as verse 1Ti_5:1 of chapter 5 shows us, and Timothy must be careful not to set himself wrong in attempting to set him right. The truth... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 1 Timothy 5:1-8

The Pastoral Care of the Aged, the Young, the Widows. v. 1. Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren, v. 2. the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity. v. 3. Honor widows that are widows indeed. v. 4. But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable before God. v. 5. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate,... read more