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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

提摩太前书 5:15

因為有些人已經轉去跟從撒但了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Minister, Christian;   Satan;   Temptation;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Backsliders;   Deterioration-Development;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devil, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Deacon, Deaconess;   Satan;   Wealth;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Widows;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Devil;   Enemy;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adversary;   Divination;   Sin (2);   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Widows;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Widow;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Widow;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 已 经 有 转 去 随 从 撒 但 的 。

Contextual Overview

3 Take care of widows who are truly widows. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to do their duty to their own family and to repay their parents or grandparents. That pleases God. 5 The true widow, who is all alone, puts her hope in God and continues to pray night and day for God's help. 6 But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive. 7 Tell the believers to do these things so that no one can criticize them. 8 Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God. 9 To be on the list of widows, a woman must be at least sixty years old. She must have been faithful to her husband. 10 She must be known for her good works—works such as raising her children, welcoming strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping those in trouble, and giving her life to do all kinds of good deeds. 11 But do not put younger widows on that list. After they give themselves to Christ, they are pulled away from him by their physical desires, and then they want to marry again. 12 They will be judged for not doing what they first promised to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Philippians 3:18, Philippians 3:19, 2 Timothy 1:15, 2 Timothy 2:18, 2 Timothy 4:10, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 2:20-22, 2 Peter 3:16, 1 John 2:19, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:5, Revelation 12:9

Reciprocal: Matthew 18:7 - unto 1 Timothy 1:6 - turned

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan was the father of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the father of Jared. Jared was the father of Enoch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 follows either false teachers, and their doctrines, as the Gnostics, that condemned marriage, or any sinful and impure way of life, may be said to turn aside after Satan; and as that apostle knew this to be fact, from his own observation, he therefore gives the above advice.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For some are already turned aside after Satan - That is, some young widows. The meaning is, that in the respects above mentioned 1 Timothy 5:13, they had followed the great Tempter, rather than the Lord Jesus. This is stated as a reason why they should not be admitted into the number of the widows who were to be maintained at the expense of the church, and to whom the care of the younger female members was to be committed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.


 
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