Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 I Timothy 5:11-13, sexual passion, idleness, etc., and so have given occasion of reproach (I Timothy 5:14). "Satan finds some mischief still for the idle hands to do."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Timothy 5:15:
1 Timothy 1:6
1 Timothy 5:14
1 Timothy 6:20-21
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