1 Timothy 3:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.”
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“Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Timothy 3:10 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 6:1In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- 1 Corinthians 1:8He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Colossians 1:22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
- 1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- 1 Timothy 3:6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
- 1 Timothy 3:13For those who have served well as deacons acquire for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 5:22Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
- Titus 1:6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
- 1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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