12 [a]Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their own households.

13 For they that have ministered well, get themselves a good [b]decree, and [c]great liberty in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

14 [d]These things write I unto thee, trusting to come very shortly unto thee.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 3:12 They that have more wives than one at one time, must neither be called to be ministers, nor to be Deacons.
  2. 1 Timothy 3:13 Honor and estimation.
  3. 1 Timothy 3:13 Bold and assured confidence without fear.
  4. 1 Timothy 3:14 Paul purposing to add many peculiar things pertaining to the daily office of a Pastor, speaketh first a word or two concerning his coming to Timothy, that he would be so much the more careful, lest at his coming he might be reproved of negligence.

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