1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be such as have each one wife and guide well their children and households.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11So also should the wives be chaste and of vigilant minds; and they should be faithful in all things; and they should not be slanderers.

13For they who serve well as deacons, procure for themselves a good degree, and much boldness in the faith of Jesus the Messiah.

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Cross References

Philippians 1:1PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus the Messiah, to all the saints that are in Jesus the Messiah at Philippi, with the elders and deacons.

1 Timothy 3:4and one that guideth well his own house, and holdeth his children in subjection with all purity.

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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