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1 Timothy 3:4

World English Bible

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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1 Timothy 3:4 in other translations

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

1 Timothy 3:4 · American Standard Version

1 Timothy 3:4 in context

  1. 2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  2. 3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  3. 4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
  4. 5(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)
  5. 6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.