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holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
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But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
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Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
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Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly;
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but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.