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


In Context

1 Stedfast is the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

3 not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

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

5 (and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

6 not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:4He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.

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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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