1 Timóteo 5:13-15 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:3-16

Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the direction of the deacons. We read of the care taken of widows immediately upon the first forming of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:11-16

5:11-16 Refuse to enrol the younger women as widows, for when they grow impatient with the restrictions of Christian widowhood, they wish to marry, and so deserve condemnation, because they have broken the pledge of their first faith; and, at the same time, they learn to be idle and to run from house to house. Yes, they can become more than idle; they can become gossips and busybodies, saying things which should not be repeated. It is my wish that the younger widows should marry, and bear... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:12-13

And withal they learn to be idle ,.... Being at ease, and without labour, living at the expense of the church: "wandering about from house to house"; having nothing else to do: such an one is what the Jews F26 T. Bab. Sota, fol. 22. 1. call אלמנה שובבית , "the gadding widow"; who, as the gloss says, "goes about and visits her neighbours continually; and these are they that corrupt the world.' Of this sort of women must the Jews be understood, when they say F1 Bereshit... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that the younger women marry ,.... Or "the younger" widows rather; and so some copies read; for this is not the apostle's advice to young women in general, though it will suit with them, but with younger widows in particular, of whom he is speaking: bear children ; and bring them forth, and feed, and nourish them, and bring them up in a religious way: guide the house ; manage domestic affairs, direct, order, or do what is proper to be done for the good of the family;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:15

For some are already turned aside after Satan. Meaning some of those younger widows, whom the apostle knew, and had observed to have departed from the faith they first professed, and turned their backs on Christ, and gave themselves up to carnal lusts and pleasures, and an idle and impure life and conversation, walked according to the course of this world, and the prince of it, by whom they were led captive at his will; for so everyone that apostatizes from a profession of Christ, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:13

And withal they learn to be idle - They do not love work, and they will not work. Wandering about from house to house - Gadding, gossiping; never contented with home; always visiting. And not only idle - If it went no farther, this would be intolerable; but they are tattlers - tale-bearers; whisperers; light, trifling persons; all noise and no work. Busybodies - Persons who meddle with the concerns of others; who mind every one's business but their own. Speaking things which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that the younger women marry - As the preceding discourse has been about the younger widows, and this is an inference from it; it is most evident that by the younger women the apostle means the young widows. These he considers unfit for the office of the female diaconate, and therefore wills them to marry, educate children, and give themselves wholly up to domestic affairs. Here the apostle, so far from forbidding second marriages, positively enjoins or at least recommends... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:15

For some are already turned aside - Some of these young widows, for he appears to be still treating of them, are turned aside to idolatry, to follow Satan instead of Christ. Slight deviations, in the first instance, from a right line, may lead at last to an infinite distance from Christ. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:13

Verse 13 13And not only so, but they grow idle Nothing is more becoming in women than keeping the house; and hence, among the ancients, a tortoise (94) was the image of a good and respectable mother of a family. But there are many who are diseased with the opposite vice. Nothing delights them more than the liberty of running from one place to another, and especially when, being freed from the burden of a family, they have nothing to do at home. Tattlers and busybodies Besides, those widows,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:14

Verse 14 14I wish the younger (widows) to marry. Censorious men laugh at this injunction of the Apostle. “As if,” say they, “it had been necessary to stimulate their excessively strong desire; for who does not know that almost all widows have naturally a wish to be married?” Superstitious men, on the other hand, would reckon that this doctrine concerning marriage is highly unsuitable to an Apostle of Christ. But, after a careful examination of the whole matter, men of sound judgment will... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:3-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:11-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:12-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Timothy 5:14

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