1 Timothy 3:4 (BSB)

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

From 1 Timothy 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Timothy 3:4

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Timothy 3:1-16: CHAPTER 3 1 Timothy 3:1-7 1. This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 1. Certus sermo, si quis episcopatum appetit, praeclarum opus desiderat. 2. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 2.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Timothy 3:1-7: The two epistles to Timothy, and that to Titus, contain a scripture-plan of church-government, or a direction to ministers. Timothy, we suppose, was an evangelist who was left at Ephesus, to take care of those whom the Holy Ghost had made bishops there, that is, the presbyters, as appears by Act 20:28, where the care of the church was committed to the presbyters, and they were called bishops.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Timothy 3:4: One that ruleth well his own house,.... His family, wife, children, and servants; and is not to be understood of his body, and of keeping of that under, and of preserving it chaste and temperate, as appears from what follows: having his children in subjection with all gravity; keeping a good decorum in his family; obliging his children to observe his orders, and especially the...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Timothy 3:4: Verse 4. One that ruleth well his own house. This implies that a minister of the gospel would be, and ought to be, a married man. It is everywhere in the New Testament supposed that he would be a man who could be an example in all the relations of life.