1 Timothy 3:11
New International Version
In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

New Living Translation
In the same way, their wives must be respected and must not slander others. They must exercise self-control and be faithful in everything they do.

English Standard Version
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

Berean Standard Bible
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

Berean Literal Bible
Women likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, clear-minded, faithful in all things.

King James Bible
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

New King James Version
Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

New American Standard Bible
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

NASB 1995
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

NASB 1977
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Legacy Standard Bible
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Amplified Bible
Women must likewise be worthy of respect, not malicious gossips, but self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.

Christian Standard Bible
Wives, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

American Standard Version
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In this way also, the wives should be modest and alert in their minds and shall be faithful in everything and should not be slanderers.

Contemporary English Version
Women must also be serious. They must not gossip or be heavy drinkers, and they must be faithful in everything they do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The women in like manner chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

English Revised Version
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Their wives must also be of good character. They must not be gossips, but they must control their tempers and be trustworthy in every way.

Good News Translation
Their wives also must be of good character and must not gossip; they must be sober and honest in everything.

International Standard Version
Their wives must also be serious. They must not be gossips, but instead be stable and trustworthy in everything.

Literal Standard Version
Women, in like manner, dignified, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

Majority Standard Bible
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

New American Bible
Women, similarly, should be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in everything.

NET Bible
Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

New Revised Standard Version
Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

New Heart English Bible
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Weymouth New Testament
Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.

World English Bible
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

Young's Literal Translation
Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

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Context
Qualifications for Deacons
10Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons. 11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things. 12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.…

Cross References
Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

1 Timothy 3:2
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

2 Timothy 3:3
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

Titus 2:3
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.


Treasury of Scripture

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

their.

Leviticus 21:7,13-15
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God…

Ezekiel 44:22
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

Luke 1:5-6
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth…

be.

1 Timothy 3:4
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

not.

Psalm 15:3
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Psalm 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Psalm 101:5
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

sober.

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober…

2 Timothy 4:5
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

faithful.

1 Timothy 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

1 Timothy 6:2
And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

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1 Timothy 3
1. How bishops, deacons, and their wives should be qualified;
14. and to what end Paul wrote to Timothy of these things.
15. Of the church, and the blessed truth therein taught and professed.














(11) Even so must their wives . . .--The position of this solitary charge, respecting deacons' wives, in the midst of regulations concerning "deacons," is, of itself, almost decisive against the translation of the English version, adopted also by Luther and many others. The question naturally occurs--why are deacon's wives especially referred to, while nothing has been said respecting the wives of presbyters? Then, again, why should the choice of Timothy in the matter of his selection of a deacon be hampered with any special requirements in the wife of the candidate for the holy office? The literal translation of the Greek words would be, Women in like manner must, &c. These women, St. Chrysostom and most of the ancient expositors affirm, were deaconesses.

It is certain that there were women holding a kind of official position as deaconesses in the early Church; nor is it probable that these deaconesses were, as a class, confined to the restriction of age referred to in the direction respecting a band of widows devoted to works of mercy (1Timothy 5:9-10). These widows seemed to have been in the first instance a class or order apart from the ordinary deaconesses.

Phebe of Cenchrea (Romans 16:1), Euodias, and Syntyche (Philippians 4:2), probably the organisation alluded to (Acts 9:36-41) as existing at Joppa, of which Dorcas was the chief, may be cited as instances from the New Testament of the employment of these women-servants of the Church. In the next century the Proconsul Pliny, in his famous letter to the Emperor Trajan, distinctly alludes to these Christian deaconesses, in the words, "ancillae quae ministrae dicebantur." "In the Western Church," says Professor Reynolds, "the order did not cease to exist until the fifth century, and was continued in the Greek Church till the twelfth. The deaconess vanished into the cloister until partially revived in comparatively modern times."

Be grave.--The same word is used as in the case of the deacons. These deaconesses, too, must, with their modest behaviour, with their sweet, decorous gravity, as it has been well said, "inspire reverence having the halo of purity and sanctity about them." . . .

Verse 11. - Women in like maturer must for even so must their wives, A.V.; temperate for sober, A.V. Women. What is meant by these "women"? Certainly not women in general, which would be quite out of harmony with the context. The choice lies between

(1) the wives of the deacons, as in the A.V.;

(2) the wives of the episcopi and deacons;

(3) deaconesses. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
In the same way,
ὡσαύτως (hōsautōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5615: In like manner, likewise, just so. From hos and an adverb from autos; as thus, i.e. In the same way.

[the] women
Γυναῖκας (Gynaikas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

[must be] dignified,
σεμνάς (semnas)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4586: Venerable, honorable, grave, serious, dignified. From sebomai; venerable, i.e. Honorable.

not
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

slanderers,
διαβόλους (diabolous)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1228: From diaballo; a traducer; specially, Satan.

[but] temperate
νηφαλίους (nēphalious)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3524: Sober, not intoxicated (with wine), temperate, vigilant. Or nephalios from nepho; sober, i.e. circumspect.

[and] faithful
πιστὰς (pistas)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4103: Trustworthy, faithful, believing. From peitho; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

all things.
πᾶσιν (pasin)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.


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