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1 Timothy 3:13

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For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:11

    Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

  2. 1 Timothy 3:12

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

  3. 1 Timothy 3:14

    These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

  4. 1 Timothy 3:15

    But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.