1 Timothy 3:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

1 Timothy 3:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 1:6
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Titus 2:2
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Acts 10:2
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

The two epistles to Timothy, and that to Titus, contain a scripture-plan of church-government, or a direction to ministers. Timothy, we suppose, was an evangelist who was left at Ephesus, to take care of those whom the Holy Ghost had made bishops there, that is, the presbyters, as appears by Acts 20:28; where the care of the church was committed to the presbyters, and they were called bishops. It…

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

(vv. 4)

4. ruleth--Greek, “presiding over.” his own house--children and servants, as contrasted with “the church” (house) of God (1Ti 3:5, 15) which he may be called on to preside over. having his children--rather as Greek, “having children (who are) in subjection” (Tit 1:6). gravity--propriety: reverent modesty on the part of the children [Alford]. The fact that he has children who are in subjection to h…