1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

In Context

11Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things.

13For they who discharge the office of a deacon with propriety, acquire to themselves a respectable station in the church, and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Philippians 1:1PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

1 Timothy 3:4presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:

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 →

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