1 Timothy 3:10

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste.

For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him: