If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. If any be blameless - See the notes on 1 Timothy 3:2, etc.
Having faithful children - Whose family is converted to God. It would have been absurd to employ a man to govern the Church whose children were not in subjection to himself; for it is an apostolic maxim, that he who cannot rule his own house, cannot rule the Church of God; 1 Timothy 3:5.