¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling `their' children and their own houses well.

² The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

¹ Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

⁴ one that ruleth well his own house, having `his' children in subjection with all gravity;

⁵ (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

⁸ Deacons in like manner `must be' grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;