1 Timothy 3:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And let them also be tried and investigated and proved first; then, if they turn out to be above reproach, let them serve [as deacons].

American Standard Version (1901)

And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

Common English Bible

They should also be tested and then serve if they are without fault.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And these things should be proven first, and then they may minister, being without offense.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

1 Timothy 3:10 Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:8

who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:22

in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

1 Timothy 3:13

For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 3:2

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Timothy 3:6

not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 Timothy 5:22

Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.