1 Timothy 5:6

The Passion Translation

But the widow who serves only herself lives a life of self-indulgence and is wasting her life away.

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

But you must not eat of the Tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will most certainly die.”

Proverbs 29:21

If you pamper your servants, don’t be surprised when they expect to be treated as sons.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, you celebrated with joy and festivity, slaughtering the sheep and the fatted ox, saying, “We will feast on meat and drink much wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Isaiah 47:1

“Get down from your throne and sit in the dust, O Miss Babylon! Sit on the ground where you belong, not on a throne, O Miss Chaldea! For you will never be described again as ‘delicate and dainty.’

Jeremiah 6:2

Daughter Zion, you are so lovely and delicate, but I will destroy you.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who used to feast on delicacies now lie dying in the streets. Those who were raised in luxury now huddle in garbage dumps.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus said to him, “Now is the time to follow me, and let those who are dead bury their own dead.”

Luke 12:19

Then I can just sit back, surrounded with comfort and ease. I’ll enjoy life with no worries at all.’

Luke 15:13

Shortly afterward, the younger son packed up all his belongings and traveled off to see the world. He journeyed to a far-off land where he soon wasted all he was given in a binge of extravagant and reckless living.

Luke 15:24

For my beloved son was once dead, but now he’s alive! Once he was lost, but now he is found!’ And everyone celebrated with overflowing joy.

Luke 15:32

It’s only right to rejoice and celebrate like this, because your brother was once dead and gone, but now he is alive and back with us again. He was lost, but now he is found!’ ”

Luke 16:19

Jesus continued. “There once was a very rich man who had the finest things imaginable, living every day enjoying his life of opulent luxury.

Luke 7:25

Who did you go there to see? Did you expect to see a man decked out in the splendid fashion of the day living in the lap of luxury?

Ephesians 2:1

And his fullness fills you, even though you were once like corpses, dead in your sins and offenses.

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!

Ephesians 5:14

This is why the Scripture says, “Arise, you sleeper! Rise up from your coffin and the Anointed One will shine his light into you!”

Colossians 2:13

This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!

2 Timothy 3:6

For they are the ones who worm their way into the hearts of vulnerable women, spending the night with those who are captured by their lusts and steeped in sin.

James 5:5

You have indulged yourselves with every luxury and pleasure this world offers, but you’re only stuffing your heart full for a day of slaughter.

Revelation 18:7

With the same measure she exalted herself and lived luxuriously, give her that measure of torment and grief, because she said in her heart, ‘I am no widow; I rule as a queen! I will never experience grief.’

Revelation 3:1

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Sardis, for these are the words of the one who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know all that you do and I know that you have a reputation for being really “alive,” but you’re actually dead!