1 Timothy 3:12
World English Bible (WEB)
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
In context
10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly,
1 Timothy 3:12 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- KJV King James Version
- Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Ministrants — let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:
- WBS Webster Bible
- Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their own houses well.