Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
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, |
Subject: A divorced pastor in ministry? |
Bible Note: Martin Luther offered some good instruction once-"If words (of scripture) are obscure in one place, they are clear in another" ( Bondage of the Will; Luther, Ch. 2, Sec. 2 ). When Gordon H. Clark wraps up his treatment of this verse in his commentary he basically says this very thing, "If not everything is said in this verse, there are other passages where a husbands obligations to his wife are clearly spelled out." Folks, this is good advise when studying all areas of doctrine and practice. RG |