1 Timothy 5:6 (WEB)
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
“It is a violation of nature to revel in pleasure, and the Apostle gives a caution against this very thing when he says, “She that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Surely, to use the apostle’s words, “She is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But a widow “that liveth in pleasure”—the words are not mine but those of the apostle—“is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“He that lives in pleasure is dead while he lives, and he that drinks himself drunk is not only dead but buried.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“A widow “that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
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Ambrose of Milan
““For she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.14Conference I
“…blessed Apostle declares that the widow is involved, who gives herself to pleasure, saying “a widow who giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…among the faithful, to restrain themselves from the love of this world, that so their soul may live unto Thee, which was dead while living in pleasures,—in death-bearing pleasures, O Lord, for Thou art the vital delight of the pure heart.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But the joy in the fruition is at once death itself, when one gains what he hath in abandoned wilfulness coveted: for “coveting is the root of all evil:” and therefore is the gate of death, for “the widow that liveth in pleasures is dead.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““She that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusteth in God.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“…be accounted among the dead; whether they pass their time in delights, whence the Apostle says, “But she who passes her time in delights, living, is dead;” or whether in labors and fastings, which are useless where there is no correction of the heart, and serve rather for display than amendment.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6
Read the whole comment“…certain distinction and, as it were, character of their own, of the unmarried and married; as she deserves the excess of hatred, who containing from marriage, that is, from a thing allowed, does not contain from offenses, either of luxury, or pride, or curiosity and prating; so the married woman is seldom met with,…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6
Read the whole comment“…obedience to the words of the Apostle, saying, “But she who is a widow indeed and desolate, hath hoped in the Lord, and persevereth in prayers night and day,” and with sober watchfulness shall shun what follows, “But she who passes her time in delights, living is dead,” all those three goods, which were Anna’s, shall…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 5, 6
Read the whole comment“For when, in stead of the delights of married women, which they have in the flesh of their husbands, the use of other carnal delights is taken, as it were to solace them, why should I speak of the evils which follow, when the Apostle hath said in short, that the widow, who lives in delights, living is dead.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6
Read the whole comment“And there is a death which the apostle denounces, saying of the widow, “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6
Read the whole comment“For so hath unerring Scripture said, “The widow who liveth in pleasure is dead.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For what the apostle said of the luxurious widow, may also be said of the soul if it has lost its God, “she is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“Hear with him the blessed Paulalso, setting many laws for them; and both about garments, and ornaments of gold,and plaiting of hair, and luxuriousliving, and all other such things, vehemently rebuking this sex.” — editor's note: Or, wantonness. See 1 Tim. v. 6.
Read the whole comment““For contentment,” he saith, “with godliness is great gain.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 6.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But the widow that is wanton, is dead while she liveth.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 3, 6.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 15.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 9.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.