1 Timothy 3:11
Similarly, the women must be chaste, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
In Context
10And these things should be proven first, and then they may minister, being without offense.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:7They shall not take as a wife a promiscuous woman, or a prostitute, or her who has been repudiated by her husband. For they are consecrated to their God,
Psalms 15:3As for the saints, who are in his land: he has made all my desires wonderful in them.
Psalms 101:5I have been cut down like hay, and my heart has withered, for I had forgotten to eat my bread.
Proverbs 25:13Just like the cold of snow in a time of harvest, so also is a faithful messenger to him who sent him: he causes his soul to rest.
Ezekiel 44:22And they shall not take as wife a widow or one who has been divorced. Instead, they shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel. But they may also take a widow, if she is the widow of a priest.
Luke 1:5There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the section of Abijah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:9-14
Qualifications of Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have used… Read the whole commentary →