1 Timothy 3:5

English Standard Version 2016

for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:13

And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22

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

Acts 20:28

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,