1st Timothy Chapter 3 verse 12 Holy Bible
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling `their' children and their own houses well.
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Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.
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Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
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Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Deacons for the deacons, A.V.; husbands for the husbands, A.V. Husbands of one wife (see above, ver. 2, note). Ruling, etc. (προιδτάμενοι); literally, being at the head of, presiding over (see ver. 4, note). In Romans 12:8 and 1 Thessalonians 5:12 it is applied to the spiritual ruler, the ἐπίσκοπος or πρεσβυτερος of the Church. Elsewhere only in the pastoral Epistles (above, vers. 4 and 5; 1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 3:8, 14). Their own houses (above, ver. 5). "Their own" is in contrast to" God's house."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife.--Here the exact same qualification is to be sought for as in the higher grade of presbyter. The same orderly and decorous household is required now in the case of the deacon, as was to be looked for as qualification for the presiding elder. St. Paul knew well that in the wise yet tender father, Timothy would find the firm yet generous distributor of the Church's alms, the loving and devoted friend of the poor sick.
