1 Timothy 3:10

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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