One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
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Gill's Exposition
One that ruleth well his own house,.... His family, wife, children, and servants; and is not to be understood of his body, and of keeping of that under, and of preserving it chaste and temperate, as…
Barnes' Notes
One that ruleth well his own house - This implies that a minister of the gospel would be, and ought to be, a married man. It is everywhere in the New Testament supposed that he would be a man who…
Adam Clarke
The fourteenth qualification of a Christian bishop is, that he ruleth well his own house; του ιδιου οικου καλως προΐσταμενον, one who properly presides over and governs his own family. One who has…
The two epistles to Timothy, and that to Titus, contain a scripture-plan of church-government, or a direction to ministers. Timothy, we suppose, was an evangelist who was left at Ephesus, to take care…
Cambridge Bible
that ruleth well his own house In distinction to -God's household" the Church, 1Ti 3:5; 1Ti 3:15.
his children Rather, from the emphatic position of -children," and the absence of the article, the…
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