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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Simplified Cowboy Version

1 Timothy 5:15

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

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

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.
Contemporary English Version
Look what's already happened to some of the young widows! They have turned away 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
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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.

Contextual Overview

3If a widow needs a hand, be the first to offer it. 4But don't step in to help if her family should be doing it. If they ride for the brand, let them take care of their own, tell them to do this. This is how they should honor their mothers and fathers. And plus, God likes it too. 5If a widow truly is all by herself, I guarantee you she's relying on God to give her a hand. She's been praying every single day and every single night for help. 6But keep a wary eye out for widows who don't really need help, but get the attention they desire with tearful sob stories. A woman who'd do that is dead already. 7Teach people how to tell the real difference in the two. 8Any real cowboy doesn't have to be told to take care of his family. If he doesn't, he ain't a real cowboy and is worse than an unbeliever in God's eyes. 9Keep a list of the widows in need, but they need to be over sixty. They also must have been a faithful wife to their husband. 10She must also be well respected around the area. This respect should come from her previously being a good momma, feeding hungry cowboys passing through, cleaning up those who need help, lending a hand to those who are sick, and never tiring of doing good things. 11If a young woman's husband dies, don't automatically offer her help. She'll eventually want to find another husband and her carnal desires will replace her faith. 12They'll soon be doing things those of the faith shouldn't 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

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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