1 Timothy 3:13

For the ones having served well in the avodas hakodesh of Messianic Shammashim acquire for themselves a good standing and much bitachon in emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

In Context

12Let the Shammashim be ba'alei isha achat (one wife husbands), managing well their banim and their own batim (households).

14I have the tikvah to come to you soon, but I am writing these directives so that,

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Cross References

Matthew 20:28Just as the Bar Enosh + 20:28 Moshiach did not come to be served (to be ministered to), but to serve (to minister), and to give his neshamah (his nefesh), as a kofer (ransom, pedut) LARABBIM + 20:28 Isa 53:11 (for the sake of many, for the Geulah Redemption of many).

Luke 16:10The one oisgehalten in little, also is neeman in much, and the one who is unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous.

Acts 6:5And this dvar found approval before all the multitude and they chose Stefanos, a man full of emunah (faith) and of the Ruach Hakodesh, and they also chose Philippos and Prochorus and Nikanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicholas, a ger (proselyte) of Antioch,

Acts 6:15And having stared intently at him, all the ones sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his ponem looking like the face of a malach.

Romans 12:7If we offer particular acts of avodas kodesh service, it should be used in serving. One who functions as a rabbinic moreh should be active in teaching.

Philippians 1:14And most of the Achim b'Adoneinu, having been strengthened in bitachon by my sharsherot (chains), are more readily willing to dare to fearlessly proclaim the Dvar Hashem.

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 →

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