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11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

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11 [a][The] women likewise must be worthy of respect and serious, not gossipers, but temperate and self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:11 Either their wives or the deaconesses, or both.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

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[They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.

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