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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Bible Question: Does "the husband of one wife" in this verse mean one wife at a time or only one wife (never divorced and remarried)? |
Bible Answer: When Paul says that church leaders should be married only once, he is prohibiting both polygamy and promiscuity. This does not prohibit an unmarried man from becoming a leader or a widowed leader from remarrying. The main idea that Paul was focusing on here was that a leader must be pure in conduct, disiplined in habits, balanced in outlook, and free from those sins that mark the socity, and the age in which he lives. (Life Application Bible commentary) |