Devine Scripture

1 Timothy 5:6

1 Timothy chapter 5 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

v.6This passage

v.7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 15:13

    And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

  • Job 21:11

    They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

  • Luke 15:32

    But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

  • Matthew 8:22

    But Jesus saith unto him, Follow me; and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

  • Amos 6:5

    that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

  • Luke 16:19

    Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: