1 Timothy 3:10

10 And let these also first be proved; then let them minister, if they are blameless.

1 Timothy 3:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 3:10

And let these also first be proved
Not that they should be tried in any part of the deacon's office, to see how capable they are of performing it; but their internal and external characters are to be looked into and examined, and if they appear, to be right, then they are to be approved of, chosen and called unto, and invested with the office:

then let them use the office of a deacon;
let them be employed and minister in the several parts and branches of that office:

being found blameless;
not without sin, but free from any gross and enormous one; not before God, but in the sight of men; (See Gill on 1 Timothy 3:2).

1 Timothy 3:10 In-Context

8 Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

9 holding the mystery of the faith together with a pure conscience.

10 And let these also first be proved; then let them minister, if they are blameless.

11 The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

12 Let the deacons be the husbands of only one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.