Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
1 Timothy 3:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God? American Standard Version (1901) (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Common English Bible because if they don’t know how to manage their own household, how can they take care of God’s church? Catholic Public Domain Version For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? |
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.