1 Timothy 5:15 (BSB)

For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

From 1 Timothy 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Timothy 5:15

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Timothy 5:1-25: CHAPTER 5 1 Timothy 5:1-4 1. Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 1. Seniorem ne aspere objurges sed hortare ut patrem, juniores ut fratres; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 2. Mulieres natu grandiores, ut matres; juniores, ut sorores, cum omni castitate. 3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. 3.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Timothy 5:3-16: Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Timothy 5:15: 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...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Timothy 5:15: Verse 15. For some are already turned aside after Satan. That is, some young widows. The meaning is, that in the respects above mentioned, , 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...