1 Timothy 3:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 4 These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ (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

⁵ 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)

⁵ (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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

1 Timothy 3:5 Cross References

Acts 20:28

6 And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

1 Corinthians 10:32

For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

Ephesians 1:22

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God;

Ephesians 5:24

3 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife fear her husband.

Ephesians 5:32

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond, or free.

1 Timothy 3:15

For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

1 Samuel 3:13

8 So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.