1 Timothy 3:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:13

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

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

Acts 20:28

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: