- Philippians 1:1
- Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
- 1 Timothy 3:12
- Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
- 1 Timothy 3:8
- Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;