1 Timothy 3:12 Cross References - Murdock

¹² Let the deacons be such as have each one wife and guide well their children and households.

¹ PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus the Messiah, to all the saints that are in Jesus the Messiah at Philippi, with the elders and deacons.

² And an elder ought to be such, that no blame can be found in him; and he should be the husband of one wife, with a vigilant mind, and sober and regular in his habits, and affectionate to strangers, and instructive;

⁴ and one that guideth well his own house, and holdeth his children in subjection with all purity. ⁵ For if he knoweth not how to guide his own house well, how can he guide the church of God.

⁸ And so also the deacons should be pure, and not speak double, nor incline to much wine, nor love base gains;