1 Timothy 3:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ They should also be tested and then serve if they are without fault.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And these things should be proven first, and then they may minister, being without offense.

1 Timothy 3:10 Cross References

1 Timothy 5:22

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

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 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.

1 Timothy 3:6

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

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 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: