1TIM 3:12 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their own children and households well.

UST An assistant must be faithful to his wife, and he must lead and care well for his children and the rest of the people in his house.

BSB § A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

BLB Let deacons be husbands of one wife, managing the children and the own households well.

AICNT Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

OEB Assistants should be faithful partners who manage their children and their households well.

WEBBE Let servants[fn] be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

3:12 or, deacons

WMBB Let servants[fn] be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

3:12 or, shammashim

NET Deacons must be husbands of one wife and good managers of their children and their own households.

LSV Servants—let them be husbands of one wife, leading the children well, and their own houses,

FBV Deacons should be married to one wife, managing their children and their homes well.

TCNT A deacon must be the husband of one wife and must lead his children and his own household well.

T4T Deacons must be faithful to their wives, and they must lead well and care well for their children and other people in their houses.

LEB Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

BBE Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.

Moff No Moff 1TIM book available

Wymth A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.

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

DRA Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.

YLT Ministrants — let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

Drby Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:

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

Wbstr Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their own houses well.

KJB-1769 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

KJB-1611 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their owne houses well.
(Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their own houses well.)

Bshps Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
(Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their own households.)

Gnva Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
(Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their own households. )

Cvdl Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
(Let the ministers be, every one the hussbade of one wife, and such as rule their children well, and their own households.)

TNT Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe and suche as rule their chyldren well and their awne housholdes.
(Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well and their own households. )

Wyc Dekenes be hosebondis of o wijf; whiche gouerne wel her sones and her housis.
(Dekenes be husbandis of o wife; which gouerne well her sons and her housis.)

Luth Die Diener laß einen jeglichen sein eines Weibes Mann, die ihren Kindern wohl vorstehen und ihren eigenen Häusern.
(The Diener let a jeglichen his one Weibes Mann, the your Kindern probably vorstehen and your eigenen Häusern.)

ClVg Diaconi sint unius uxoris viri, qui filiis suis bene præsint, et suis domibus.
(Diaconi sint of_one uxoris viri, who childrens to_his_own bene præsint, and to_his_own domibus. )

UGNT διάκονοι ἔστωσαν μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρες, τέκνων καλῶς προϊστάμενοι καὶ τῶν ἰδίων οἴκων.
(diakonoi estōsan mias gunaikos andres, teknōn kalōs proistamenoi kai tōn idiōn oikōn.)

SBL-GNT διάκονοι ἔστωσαν μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρες, τέκνων καλῶς προϊστάμενοι καὶ τῶν ἰδίων οἴκων·
(diakonoi estōsan mias gunaikos andres, teknōn kalōs proistamenoi kai tōn idiōn oikōn;)

TC-GNT Διάκονοι ἔστωσαν μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρες, τέκνων καλῶς προϊστάμενοι καὶ τῶν ἰδίων οἴκων.
(Diakonoi estōsan mias gunaikos andres, teknōn kalōs proistamenoi kai tōn idiōn oikōn. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / imperative3p

διάκονοι ἔστωσαν

servants ˱them˲_let_be

If your language does not use the third-person imperative in this way, you could state this in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Deacons should be”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

διάκονοι

servants

After speaking about “women” in the previous verse, Paul could be using the word deacons to refer to: (1) male deacons. Alternate translation: “male deacons” (2) all deacons. Alternate translation: “all deacons”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρες

˱of˲_one wife husbands

Paul used a very similar phrase in 3:2, and you should express the idea as you did there. He could mean that deacons: (1) each must be sexually faith to one woman, his wife. Alternate translation: “men who are faithful to their wives” (2) each must have no more than one wife at a time. Alternate translation: “husbands of only one wife at a time” (3) each must have been married no more than once, even if the marriage ended in divorce or death. Alternate translation: “men who have been married only once”

προϊστάμενοι

leading

Alternate translations: “managing” or “taking care of”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τέκνων & καὶ τῶν ἰδίων οἴκων

˱of˲_/their/_children & and ˱of˲_their own households

The phrase children and their own households is not making a distinction between children and households by indicating that the children are not part of the household. Rather, the phrase emphasizes that the children are a particularly important part of the households. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “children and the rest of their own households” or “their own households, and particularly their children,”

Parallel 1TIM 3:12