1 Timothy 3:10
And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
In Context
9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 3:2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:13For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:9-14
Qualifications of Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have used… Read the whole commentary →