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1 Timothy 5:6 — King James Version← Study notes

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.


1 Timothy 5:6Greek Interlinear

Greek · 1 Timothy 5:65 words
GreekMeaning
ShearticleG3588
δὲde
howeverwordG1161
σπαταλῶσαspatalōsa
living in self-indulgenceverbG4684
ζῶσαzōsa
while livingverbG2198
τέθνηκενtethnēken
has diedverbG2348
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:6

She who being a widow has not made choice of a worldly life, is a widow indeed; she who trusts in God as she ought, and continues instant in prayer night and day, is a widow indeed. Not that she, who has children, is not a widow indeed. For he commends her who brings up children as she ought. But if any one has not children, he means, she is desolate, and her he consoles, saying, that she is most truly a widow, who has lost not only the consolation of a husband, but that…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 13 on First Timothy
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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