1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
BSB
ASV
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
KJV
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Women, not just any women, but deaconesses. For what did Paul wish to mention among the clergy, women of any kind? not slanderous. What was said above: not to be double-tongued. but …
Even so must their wives be grave - Chrysostom, Theophylact, Grotius, Bloomfield, and many others, suppose that by the word “wives,” here, (γυνᾶικας gunaikas), the apostle means “deaconesses.” Clarke supposes that it refers to women in general.
Moreover, if the wives of the deacons were meant, there seems no reason for the omission of "their" (not in the Greek). Also the Greek for "even so" (the same as for "likewise," 1Ti 3:8, and "in like manner," 1Ti 2:9), denotes a transition to another class of persons.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
leads to
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
and do not give the devil a foothold.
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Through
1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
leads to
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
