1 Timothy 3:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?

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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?

1 Timothy 3:5 Cross References

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

Ephesians 5:24

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22

And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,