Qualifications for Deacons

1 Timothy 3:8-14

Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.

For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.