1 Timothy 3:10
And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
9but holding the secret truths of the faith with a clear conscience.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:8who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 3:2A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;
1 Timothy 3:13For those who have filled the deacon's office wisely and well, are already gaining for themselves an honourable standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in proclaiming the faith which rests on Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:6wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.
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 →