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1 Timotheus 3:12

Listen to 1 Timotheus 3:12
12 Die Diener seien eines Weibes Mann, die ihren Kindern und den eigenen Häusern wohl vorstehen;

1 Timotheus 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife,
&c.] (See Gill on 1 Timothy 3:2)

ruling their children and their own houses well.
These qualifications are the same with those of the bishop or elder; (See Gill on 1 Timothy 3:4).

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1 Timotheus 3:12 In-Context

10 Laß diese aber zuerst erprobt werden, dann laß sie dienen, wenn sie untadelig sind.
11 Die Weiber desgleichen, würdig, nicht verleumderisch, nüchtern, treu in allem.
12 Die Diener seien eines Weibes Mann, die ihren Kindern und den eigenen Häusern wohl vorstehen;
13 denn die, welche wohl gedient haben, erwerben sich eine schöne Stufe und viel Freimütigkeit im Glauben, der in Christo Jesu ist.
14 Dieses schreibe ich dir in der Hoffnung, bald zu dir zu kommen;
The Elberfelder Bible is in the public domain.

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