1 Timothy 3:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God's church?

More versions

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

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which 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,

Ephesians 1:22

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

Ephesians 5:24

As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to 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 bulwark of the truth.

1 Samuel 3:13

And I tell him that I am about to punish his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.