1 Timothy 3:4
One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
In Context
3Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
5For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
Cross References
Joshua 24:15And if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the Lord, choose you this day whome yee will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel: but I and mine house will serue the Lord.
Acts 10:2A deuoute man, and one that feared God with all his housholde, which gaue much almes to the people, and prayed God continually.
1 Timothy 3:12Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
Titus 2:2That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, and in patience:
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:2-8
Duties of Bishops and Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how… Read the whole commentary →