1 Timothy 3:10
Let these be tested first; then, if blameless, let them serve as deacons.
Revised King James New Testament
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 with a pure conscience.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8Who shall also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 3:2An overseer must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, respectable, given to hospitality, able to teach;
1 Timothy 3:13For those who serve well in the office of deacon acquire for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in their faith in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:6Elders must be blameless, the husband of one wife, whose children believe and are not accused of being profligate 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 →