1 Timothy 3:10

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And let them also be tested first; then if they prove themselves blameless let them serve as deacons.

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who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,

He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil;

Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.