1 Timothy 5:12

New Century Version

They will be judged for not doing what they first promised to do.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and will therefore receive condemnation because they have renounced their original pledge.

King James Version (1611)
Hauing damnation, because they haue cast off their first faith.

King James Version
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

English Standard Version
and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.

New American Standard Bible
thereby incurring condemnation, because they have ignored their previous pledge.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

Berean Standard Bible
and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.

Contemporary English Version
and become guilty of breaking their promise to him.

Complete Jewish Bible
This brings them under condemnation for having set aside the trust they had at first.

Darby Translation
being guilty, because they have cast off their first faith.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then they will be guilty of not doing what they first promised to do.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hauing damnation, because they haue broken the first faith.

George Lamsa Translation
Their judgment awaits them because they have been untrue to their first faith.

Good News Translation
and so become guilty of breaking their earlier promise to him.

Lexham English Bible
thus incurring condemnation because they have broken their former pledge.

Literal Translation
having guilt because they set aside the first faith;

Amplified Bible
and so they incur condemnation for having set aside their previous pledge.

American Standard Version
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Bible in Basic English
And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

Hebrew Names Version
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

International Standard Version
They receive condemnation because they have set aside their previous pledge.

Etheridge Translation
and their condemnation is confirmed, because they have rejected their first fidelity.

Murdock Translation
and their condemnation is fixed, because they have cast off their former faith.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hauyng dampnation, because they haue cast away their first fayth.

English Revised Version
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith.

World English Bible
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith.

Weymouth's New Testament
and they incur disapproval for having broken their original vow.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
hauynge dampnacioun, for thei han maad voide the firste feith.

Update Bible Version
having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

New English Translation
and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

New King James Version
having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith.

New Living Translation
Then they would be guilty of breaking their previous pledge.

New Life Bible
Then they would be thought of as guilty of breaking their first promise.

New Revised Standard
and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Having, as sentence, - that, their first faith, they have set at nought;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.

Revised Standard Version
and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
havynge damnacio because they have broke their fyrst fayth.

Young's Literal Translation
having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
hauynge their damnacion, because they haue broke ye first faith.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for which they are much to be condemn'd, because they violate the engagements they had before enter'd into:

Simplified Cowboy Version
They'll soon be doing things those of the faith shouldn't do.

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

damnation: 1 Corinthians 11:34, James 3:1, 1 Peter 4:17,*Gr.

their: Galatians 1:6, Revelation 2:4, Revelation 2:5

Reciprocal: Hosea 8:3 - cast

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the son of Kenan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 12 Having damnation, c.] Not for their second marriage, but for their wantonness against Christ, or their sinful and luxurious way of living, contrary to the Gospel of Christ: and this is to be understood not of eternal damnation, which cannot, with propriety, be said to be had now but either of the reproach and scandal cast upon them, and religion, for their wantonness; or the judgment and censure of the church for the same; or having sin, and the guilt of sin upon them, in which sense the word is used, Romans 5:16.

Because they have cast off their first faith; or that faith which they first professed, even the doctrine of faith; which they may be said to cast off, because they walked not according to it, their conversation was not becoming their profession of it; and though they continued to profess the same faith they did in words, yet in works they denied it, or cast it off; for which reason they fell under the notice, judgment, and condemnation of the church, as well as exposed themselves to the reproach of men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having damnation - Or, rather, having “condemnation;” or incurring guilt. This does not mean of necessity that they would lose their souls; see the phrase explained in the notes on 1 Corinthians 11:29. The meaning is, that they would contract guilt, if they had been admitted among this class of persons, and then married again. The apostle does not say that that would be wrong in itself (compare notes on 1 Timothy 5:14), or that they would be absolutely prohibited from it, but that injury would be done if they were admitted among those who were “widows indeed” - who were supported by the church, and who were entrusted with a certain degree of care over the more youthful females - and then should leave that situation. It might give occasion for scandal it might break in upon the arrangements; it would show that there was a relaxing of the faith, and of the deadness to the world, which they were supposed to have; and it was better that they should be married 1 Timothy 5:14, without having been thus admitted.

Because they have cast off their first faith - This does not mean that they would lose all their religion, or wholly fall away, but that this would show that they had not the strong faith, the deadness to the world, the simple dependence on God 1 Timothy 5:5, and the desire which they had to be weaned from worldly cares and influences, which they once had. When they became widows, all their earthly hopes seemed to be blasted. They were then dead to the world, and felt their sole dependence on God. But if, under the influence of these strong emotions, they were admitted to the “class of widows” in the church, there was no certainty that they would continue in this state of mind. Time would do much to modify their grief. There would be a reviving love of the world, and under the influence of this they would be disposed to enter again into the marriage relation, and thus show that they had not the strong and simple faith which they had when the blow which made them widows fell heavily upon then.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. Having damnation — In the sense in which we use this word I am satisfied the apostle never intended it. It is likely that he refers here to some promise or engagement which they made when taken on the list already mentioned, and now they have the guilt of having violated that promise; this is the κριμα, or condemnation, of which the apostle speaks.

They have cast off their first faith. — By pledging their fidelity to a husband they have cast off their fidelity to Christ, as a married life and their previous engagement are incompatible. Dr. Macknight translates these two verses thus: But the younger widows reject, for when they cannot endure Christ's rein, they will marry; incurring condemnation, because they have put away their first fidelity.