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
not a novice; lest, being puffed up, he fall into condemnation of the Devil.
1 Timothy 5:22
Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
Use
1 Timothy 3:13
For those serving well as deacons acquire for themselves a noble standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Acts 6:1
Now in these days, when the disciples were being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration.
Being
1 Timothy 3:2
It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,
1 Corinthians 1:8
Who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccusable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:22
yet now did He reconcile in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and irreproachable, before Him;
Titus 1:6
if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children not in accusation of rioting, or unruly.