1 Timothy 3:11
Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
In Context
10And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:7They shall not take to wife an whore, or one polluted, neither shall they marrie a woman diuorced from her husband: for such one is holy vnto his God.
Psalms 15:3He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.
Psalms 101:5Him that priuily slandereth his neighbour, wil I destroy: him that hath a proude looke and hie heart, I cannot suffer.
Proverbs 25:13As the colde of the snowe in the time of haruest, so is a faithfull messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soule of his masters.
Ezekiel 44:22Neither shall they take for their wiues a widowe, or her that is diuorced: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath bene the widow of a Priest.
Luke 1:5In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.
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 →