1 Timothy 5 · Verse 15

1 Timothy 5:15

For some are already turned aside after Satan.
1 Timothy 5:15, King James Version

1 Timothy 5:15 in other translations

BSBFor some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
WEBFor already some have turned away after Satan.
ASVfor already some are turned aside after Satan.
YLTfor already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.
DARBYFor already some have turned aside after Satan.
BBEFor even now some are turned away to Satan.
WebsterFor some are already turned aside after Satan.

What does 1 Timothy 5:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. 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 1Ti 5:11-13, sexual passion, idleness, &c., and so have given occasion of reproach (1Ti 5:14). "Satan finds some mischief still for the idle hands to do."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 15. For some are already turned aside after Satan. That is, some young widows. The meaning is, that in the respects above mentioned, 1Timm 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.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Timothy 5:9-16

Every one brought into any office in the church, should be free from just censure; and many are proper objects of charity, yet ought not to be employed in public services. Those who would find mercy when they are in distress, must show mercy when they are in prosperity; and those who show most readiness for every good work, are most likely to be faithful in whatever is trusted to them. Those who are idle, very…

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1 Timothy 5:15 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἤδηēdēAlreadyG2235
γάρgarforG1063
τινεςtinessomeG5100
ἐξετράπησανexetrapēsanhave turned asideG1624
ὀπίσωopisōafterG3694
τοῦtou<the>G3588
σατανᾶ.satanaSatan.G4567

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Timothy 5:15

  • 2 Peter 2:2

    And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

  • Jude 1:4-5

    For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • 2 Peter 2:20-22

    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  • 1 Timothy 1:20

    Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

  • 1 John 2:19

    They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

  • Philippians 3:18-19

    (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

  • 2 Timothy 4:10

    For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

  • Matthew 4:10

    Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

  • 2 Peter 3:16

    As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

  • 2 Timothy 1:15

    This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

  • Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

  • 2 Timothy 2:18

    Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Php 3:18,19; 2Ti 1:15; 2:18; 4:10; 2Pe 2:2,20-22; 3:16; 1Jo 2:19
Jude 1:4,5; Re 12:9

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Context

  • 1 Timothy 5:14

    I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  • 1 Timothy 5:15

    For some are already turned aside after Satan.

  • 1 Timothy 5:16

    If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

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1 Timothy 5:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque ya algunas han vuelto atrás en pos de Satanás.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
car déjà quelques-unes se sont détournées après Satan.
German
Elberfelder 1871
denn schon haben sich etliche abgewandt, dem Satan nach.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Jam enim quædam conversæ sunt retro Satanam.