I Timothy 5:15
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For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
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For--For in the case of some this result has already ensued; "Some (widows) are already turned aside after Satan," the seducer (not by falling away from the faith in general, but) by such errors as are stigmatized in Ti1 5:11-13, sexual passion, idleness, &c., and so have given occasion of reproach (Ti1 5:14). "Satan finds some mischief still for the idle hands to do."
Open source ↗Here the apostle, I. Directs Timothy how to reprove (Ti1 5:1, Ti1 5:2). II. Adverts to widows, both elder and younger (Ti1 5:3-16). III. To elders (Ti1 5:17-19). IV. Treats of public reproof (Ti1 5:20). V. Gives a solemn charge concerning ordination (Ti1 5:21, Ti1 5:22). VI. Refers to his health (Ti1 5:23), and states men's sins to be very different in their effects (Ti1 5:24, Ti1 5:25).
Open source ↗5:15 now follow Satan: They had committed apostasy, renouncing Christ, probably in connection with the false teachers (1:6-7; cp. 3:6-7; Heb 2:1) and their self-indulgence (1 Tim 5:6, 13).
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Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”