Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.
Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
For those who have served well as deacons acquire for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accus
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospita
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Heb
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets hav