Verse 12

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

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
• 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
• 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: