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1 Timothy 3:10-14 American Standard Version (ASV)

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

11. Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

13. For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

14. These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly;

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