4He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.


In Context

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.

1st Timothy 3:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:4his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:4One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;