1 Timothy 3:11
rEven so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
γυναῖκας ὡσαύτως σεμνάς, μὴ διαβόλους, νηφαλίους, πιστὰς ἐν πᾶσι.
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1 Timothy 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Romans 16:1 I COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
1 Timothy 2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
must their is not in the Greek, but supplied by our interpreters, and, as some think, ill, judging that he speaks here not of deacons’ wives, but of deaconesses, of such women as had the deacon’s office conferred on them, such a one was Phebe, Rom 16:1; but it may be understood of either, both ought to be not light, airy, tattling persons, but composed, serious, grave people.
not devils, (so it is in the Greek), that is, persons given to railing and accusing others.
see the sense of that word, 1Ti 3:2.
who have approved themselves every way honest, and such persons as may be trusted.