1 Timothy 3:12 — King James Version← Study notes
“Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
1 Timothy 3:12 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Timothy 3:1212 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 3:12
This must be understood therefore to relate to Deaconesses. For that order is necessary and useful and honorable in the Church. Observe how he requires the same virtue from the Deacons, as from the Bishops, for though they were not of equal rank, they must equally be blameless; equally pure.
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