1 Timothy 3:5

A Conservative Version

(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves, and he did not restrain them.

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I delay, that thou may know how it is necessary to live in a house of God, which is a congregation of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22

And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God,