1 Timothy 3:13

For they that have used the office of a deacon well,.... With diligence and faithfulness, with simplicity and cheerfulness; taking good care of the minister and poor, and of the discipline of God's…

For they that have used the office of a deacon well - Margin, “ministered.” The Greek word is the same as deacon, meaning ministering, or serving in this office. The sense would be well expressed by…

That have used the office of a deacon well - They who, having been tried or proved, Ti1 3:10, have shown by their steadiness, activity, and zeal, that they might be raised to a higher office, are here…

We have here the character of deacons: these had the care of the temporal concerns of the church, that is, the maintenance of the ministers and provision for the poor: they served tables, while the…

purchase to themselves a good degree The word for -degree" occurs only here in N.T., having been used in LXX. for a -step" or -threshold," e.g. 1Sa 5:5, -the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod." It may be…