1 Timothy 3:10
Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
World English Bible Classic
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.
11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1 Timothy 3:13For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
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 →