1 Timothy 3:5

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how will he be able to take care of the church of God?

Cross References

Acts 20:28

So, pay close attention to your [own] lives, and to all [members] of the flock [i.e., the congregation] of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers [i.e., elders, shepherds or pastors]. Provide [spiritual] food for the church of the Lord which He purchased by [shedding] His own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not [do what could] cause Jews, Greeks [i.e., Gentiles] or the church of God to fall [away from God].

Ephesians 1:22

And God placed everything in subjection under His [i.e., Christ’s] feet, and appointed Him to be head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 5:24

But just as the church submits to Christ, so wives also should submit to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

The secret [truth] of this is great, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

so that, if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to behave themselves in God’s family, which is the church of the living God, the [supporting] column and foundation of the truth.