1 Timothy 3:12

3:12 Deacons must be husbands of one wife ¹  and good managers of their children and their own households.

Genesis 18:19

18:19 I have chosen him ²  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep ³  the way of the Lord by doing ⁴  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give ⁵  to Abraham what he promised ⁶  him.”

Joshua 24:15

24:15 If you have no desire ⁷  to worship ⁸  the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, ⁹  whether it be the gods whom your ancestors ¹⁰  worshiped ¹¹  beyond the Euphrates, ¹²  or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family ¹³  will worship ¹⁴  the Lord!”

Psalms 101:2-8

101:2 I will walk in ¹⁵  the way of integrity.

When will you come to me?

I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace. ¹⁶ 

101:3 I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. ¹⁷ 

I hate doing evil; ¹⁸ 

I will have no part of it. ¹⁹ 

101:4 I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; ²⁰ 

I will not permit ²¹  evil.

101:5 I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret.

I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude. ²² 

101:6 I will favor the honest people of the land, ²³ 

and allow them to live with me. ²⁴ 

Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me. ²⁵ 

101:7 Deceitful people will not live in my palace. ²⁶ 

Liars will not be welcome in my presence. ²⁷ 

101:8 Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land,

and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Acts 10:2

10:2 He ²⁸  was a devout, God-fearing man, ²⁹  as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people ³⁰  and prayed to God regularly.

Titus 1:6

1:6 An elder must be blameless, ³¹  the husband of one wife, ³²  with faithful children ³³  who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

[3:12]  ¹ tn Or “men married only once,” “devoted solely to their wives” (see the note on “wife” in 1 Tim 3:2; also 1 Tim 5:9; Titus 1:6).

[18:19]  ² tn Heb “For I have known him.” The verb יָדַע (yada’) here means “to recognize and treat in a special manner, to choose” (see Amos 3:2). It indicates that Abraham stood in a special covenantal relationship with the Lord.

[18:19]  ³ tn Heb “and they will keep.” The perfect verbal form with vav consecutive carries on the subjective nuance of the preceding imperfect verbal form (translated “so that he may command”).

[18:19]  ⁴ tn The infinitive construct here indicates manner, explaining how Abraham’s children and his household will keep the way of the Lord.

[18:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “bring on.” The infinitive after לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) indicates result here.

[18:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “spoke to.”

[24:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “if it is bad in your eyes.”

[24:15]  ⁸ tn Or “to serve.”

[24:15]  ⁹ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[24:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “served.”

[24:15]  ¹² tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

[24:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “house.”

[24:15]  ¹⁴ tn Or “will serve.”

[101:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “take notice of.”

[101:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I will walk about in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.”

[101:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I will not set before my eyes a thing of worthlessness.”

[101:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the doing of swerving [deeds] I hate.” The Hebrew term סֵטִים (setim) is probably an alternate spelling of שֵׂטִים (setim), which appears in many medieval Hebrew mss. The form appears to be derived from a verbal root שׂוּט (sut, “to fall away; to swerve”; see Ps 40:4).

[101:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doing of evil deeds] does not cling to me.”

[101:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “a perverse heart will turn aside from me.” The adjective עִקֵּשׁ (’iqqesh) has the basic nuance “twisted; crooked” and by extension refers to someone or something that is morally perverse (see Ps 18:26). It appears frequently in the Book of Proverbs, where it is used of evil people (22:5), speech (8:8; 19:1), thoughts (11:20; 17:20), and life styles (2:15; 28:6).

[101:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “know.” The king will not willingly allow perverse individuals to remain in his royal court.

[101:5]  ²² tn Heb “[one who has] pride of eyes and wideness [i.e., arrogance] of heart, him I will not endure.”

[101:6]  ²³ tn Heb “my eyes [are] on the faithful of the land.”

[101:6]  ²⁴ tn The Hebrew text simply reads, “in order to live with me.”

[101:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “one who walks in the way of integrity, he will minister to me.”

[101:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he will not live in the midst of my house, one who does deceit.”

[101:7]  ²⁷ tn Heb “one who speaks lies will not be established before my eyes.”

[10:2]  ²⁸ tn In the Greek text this represents a continuation of the previous sentence. Because of the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

[10:2]  ²⁹ sn The description of Cornelius as a devout, God-fearing man probably means that he belonged to the category called “God-fearers,” Gentiles who worshiped the God of Israel and in many cases kept the Mosaic law, but did not take the final step of circumcision necessary to become a proselyte to Judaism. See further K. G. Kuhn, TDNT 6:732-34, 43-44, and Sir 11:17; 27:11; 39:27.

[10:2]  ³⁰ tn Or “gave many gifts to the poor.” This was known as “giving alms,” or acts of mercy (Sir 7:10; BDAG 315-16 s.v. ἐλεημοσύνη).

[1:6]  ³¹ tn Grk “if anyone is blameless…” as a continuation of v. 5b, beginning to describe the elder’s character.

[1:6]  ³² tn Or “married only once,” “devoted solely to his wife.” See the note on “wife” in 1 Tim 3:2; also 1 Tim 3:12; 5:9.

[1:6]  ³³ tn Or “believing children.” The phrase could be translated “believing children,” but the parallel with 1 Tim 3:4 (“keeping his children in control”) argues for the sense given in the translation.