Verse 10

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

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
• Titus 1:6-7 : 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Acts 6:1-2 : 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. 2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• 1 Tim 3:13 : 13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• Col 1:22 : 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,