New Revised Standard Version
And let them first be tested; then, if they prove themselves blameless, let them serve as deacons.

Contemporary English Version
They must first prove themselves. Then if no one has anything against them, they can serve as officers.

New American Bible
Moreover, they should be tested first; then, if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.

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

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

let these.

1 Timothy 3:6 Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

1 Timothy 5:22 Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste.

1 John 4:1 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

use.

1 Timothy 3:13 For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Acts 6:1,2 And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. . . .

being.

1 Timothy 3:2 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

1 Corinthians 1:8 Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:22 Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

Titus 1:6,7 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly. . . .