Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Let these
Bible References
Let these
1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.
1 Timothy 5:22
Don’t be too quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
1 John 4:1
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Use
1 Timothy 3:13
For those who have served well as deacons acquire a good standing for themselves, and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
Acts 6:1
In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
Being
1 Timothy 3:2
An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,
1 Corinthians 1:8
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:22
But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him—
Titus 1:6
one who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of wildness or rebellion.