1 Timothy 3:12
Parallel Translations


NASB: Deacons must be husbands of [only] one wife, [and] good managers of [their] children and their own households. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: A deacon must have only one wife. Deacons must manage their children and their families well. (GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
ASV: Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
BBE: Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.
DBY: Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well:
WEY: A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.
WBS: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their own houses well.
WEB: Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
YLT: Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

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