1 Timothy 5:6

Ver. 6. But she that lives deliciously (or wantonly; σπαταλῶσα occurs only again in James 5:5), is dead while she lives: the reverse of the true widow, who was represented as comparatively dead to the world, and alive to God, this person appears to have a relish only for the world and its pleasures, and to be dead to what is of God. The description substantially coincides with that given of the church of Sardis in Revelation 3:1, “Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” Only here the living has respect not so much to a profession of godliness as to the world's idea of life an unreserved surrender to present objects and entertainments. Such life in the lower sphere involves death in the higher. And though the apostle does not expressly state it, yet it is plainly implied in what he says, that widows living after such a fashion were to be regarded as cut off from the sympathy and oversight extended to true Christian widows.