1 Timothy 3:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:4-5
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; …
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
1 Timothy 3:8
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

We have here the character of deacons: these had the care of the temporal concerns of the church, that is, the maintenance of the ministers and provision for the poor: they served tables, while the ministers or bishops gave themselves only to the ministry of the word and prayer, Acts 6:2, 4. Of the institution of this office, with that which gave occasion to it, you have an account in Acts 6:1-7.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. husbands of one wife--(See on 1Ti 3:2). ruling their children--There is no article in the Greek, “ruling children”; implying that he regarded the having children to rule as a qualification (1Ti 3:4; Tit 1:6). their own houses--as distinguished from “the Church of God” (see on 1Ti 3:5). In the case of the deacons, as in that of the bishops, he mentions the first condition of receiving office, r…