4He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.
4He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.
1 Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.
2 Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.
5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.
3:4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:4conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
3:4his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,
3:4One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;