1 Timothy 3:5

English Majority Text Version

(for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

Cross References

Acts 20:28

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Be without offense, both toward Jews and toward Greeks, and toward the church of God,

Ephesians 1:22

And He subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and to the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.