1 Timothy 3:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

1 Timothy 3:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 5:22
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Timothy 3:13
For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:6-7
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. …
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:6
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

We have here the character of deacons: these had the care of the temporal concerns of the church, that is, the maintenance of the ministers and provision for the poor: they served tables, while the ministers or bishops gave themselves only to the ministry of the word and prayer, Acts 6:2, 4. Of the institution of this office, with that which gave occasion to it, you have an account in Acts 6:1-7.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. “And moreover,” &c. [Alford]. be proved--not by a period of probation, but by a searching inquiry, conducted by Timothy, the ordaining president (1Ti 5:22), whether they be “blameless”; then when found so, “let them act as deacons.” blameless--Greek, “unexceptionable”; as the result of public investigation unaccused [Tittmann].