1 Timothy 5:15

Contemporary English Version

Look what's already happened to some of the young widows! They have turned away to follow Satan.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

King James Version (1611)
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

King James Version
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

English Standard Version
For some have already strayed after Satan.

New American Standard Bible
for some have already turned away to follow Satan.

New Century Version
But some have already turned away to follow Satan.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

Legacy Standard Bible
for some have already turned aside after Satan.

Berean Standard Bible
For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

Complete Jewish Bible
For already some have turned astray to follow the Adversary.

Darby Translation
For already some have turned aside after Satan.

Easy-to-Read Version
But some of the younger widows have already turned away to follow Satan.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For certaine are alreadie turned backe after Satan.

George Lamsa Translation
For, as conditions are now, some have already strayed after Satan.

Good News Translation
For some widows have already turned away to follow Satan.

Lexham English Bible
For already some have turned away and followed after Satan.

Literal Translation
For some already have turned aside behind Satan.

Amplified Bible
Some [widows] have already turned away [from the faith] to follow Satan.

American Standard Version
for already some are turned aside after Satan.

Bible in Basic English
For even now some are turned away to Satan.

Hebrew Names Version
For already some have turned aside after Hasatan.

International Standard Version
For some widowswidows">[fn] have already turned away to follow Satan.

Etheridge Translation
and not give to the adversary any occasion to revile. For already have some begun to turn aside after Satana.

Murdock Translation
For some have already begun to turn aside after Satan.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For certaine of them are alredy turned backe after Satan.

English Revised Version
for already some are turned aside after Satan.

World English Bible
For already some have turned aside after Satan.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Weymouth's New Testament
For already some of them have gone astray, following Satan.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For now summe ben turned abak aftir Sathanas.

Update Bible Version
for some already turned aside after Satan.

Webster's Bible Translation
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

New English Translation
For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.

New King James Version
For some have already turned aside after Satan.

New Living Translation
For I am afraid that some of them have already gone astray and now follow Satan.

New Life Bible
Some of these women have already turned away to follow Satan.

New Revised Standard
For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, already, some have turned aside after Satan:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For some are already turned aside after Satan.

Revised Standard Version
For some have already strayed after Satan.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For many of them are all redy turned bake and are gone after Satan.

Young's Literal Translation
for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For some are turned back allready after Satha.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for some have already revolted to paganism.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I know many who have quit God's outfit and traded eternity for riding for the devil.

Contextual Overview

³ Take care of any widow who is really in need. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should learn to serve God by taking care of her, as she once took care of them. This is what God wants them to do. ⁵ A widow who is really in need is one who doesn't have any relatives. She has faith in God, and she keeps praying to him night and day, asking for his help. ⁶ A widow who thinks only about having a good time is already dead, even though she is still alive. ⁷ Tell all of this to everyone, so they will do the right thing. ⁸ People who don't take care of their relatives, and especially their own families, have given up their faith. They are worse than someone who doesn't have faith in the Lord. ⁹ For a widow to be put on the list of widows, she must be at least sixty years old, and she must have been faithful in marriage. ¹⁰ She must also be well-known for doing all sorts of good things, such as raising children, giving food to strangers, welcoming God's people into her home, helping people in need, and always making herself useful. ¹¹ Don't put young widows on the list. They may later have a strong desire to get married. Then they will turn away from Christ ¹² and become guilty of breaking their promise to him.

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

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.