1 Timothy 3:10
And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
9Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
11Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8Who shall also confirme you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse, in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.
1 Timothy 3:2A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
1 Timothy 3:13For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
Titus 1:6If any be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
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 →