1 Timothy 5:6

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

But {G1161} she that liveth in pleasure {G4684} is dead {G2348} while she liveth {G2198}.

But the one who is self-indulgent is already dead, even though she lives.

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • James 5:5 (9 votes)

    Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

  • Revelation 3:1 (7 votes)

    And 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.

  • Revelation 18:7 (7 votes)

    How 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 15:24 (6 votes)

    For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

  • Luke 15:32 (5 votes)

    It 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.

  • Ephesians 5:14 (3 votes)

    Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

  • Luke 15:13 (3 votes)

    And 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.