Even so must their wives be grave: must their is not in the Greek, but supplied by our interpreters, and, as some think, ill, judging that he speaks here not of deacons wives, but of deaconesses, of such women as had the deacon's office conferred on them, such a one was Phebe, Romans 16:1; but it may be understood of either, both ought to be not light, airy, tattling persons, but composed, serious, grave people. Not slanderers; not devils, (so it is in the Greek), that is, persons given to railing and accusing others. Sober: see the sense of that word, 1 Timothy 3:2. Faithful in all things; who have approved themselves every way honest, and such persons as may be trusted.
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1 Timothy 3:11
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.