1 Timothy 3:5

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

Ephesians 1:22

And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 5:24

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.