TSK · 1 Timothy 3:4

If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.

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

Deacons must be husbands of one wife and good managers of their children and their own households.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.