1 Timothy 3:9
but havynge the mistery of the fayth in pure conscience.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
In Context
10And let them fyrst be proved and then let them minister yf they be founde fautlesse.
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:19havinge fayth and good consciece which some have put awaye from them and as concerninge fayth have made shipwracke.
2 John 1:9Whosoever transgresseth and bydeth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that endureth in the doctrine of Christ hath bothe the father and the sonne.
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 →