1 Timothy 3:10

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

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WEBBE

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

BSB

Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

KJV

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

ASV

And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

BBE

And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.

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καὶ kai Also G2532 οὗτοι houtoi these G3778 δὲ de now G1161 δοκιμαζέσθωσαν dokimazesthōsan they should be tested G1381 πρῶτον prōton first G4413 εἶτα eita then G1534 διακονείτωσαν diakoneitōsan they should serve G1247 ἀνέγκλητοι anegklētoi blameless G410 ὄντες.¶ ontes being G1510

The early church

And here he requires, though in other words, that he be "not a novice," where he says, "Let these also first be proved," where the conjunction "also" is added, as connecting this with what had been said before of Bishops, for nothing intervenes between. And there is the same reason for the "not a novice" in that case. For would it not be absurd, that when a newly purchased slave is not entrusted with anything in a house, till he has by long trial given proofs of his character, yet that one should enter into the Church of God from a state of heathenism, and be at once placed in a station of preeminence?
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on 1 Timothy

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–13

The deacons were at first appointed to distribute the charity of the church, and to manage its concerns, yet pastors and evangelists were among them. The deacons had a great trust reposed in them. They must be grave, serious, prudent men. It is not fit that public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are found fit for the business with which they are to be trusted. All who are related to ministers, must take great care to walk as becomes the gospel of Christ.

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