1 Timothy 3:5

New Century Version

(If someone does not know how to lead the family, how can that person take care of God’s church?)

Cross References

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Never do anything that might hurt others—Jews, Greeks, or God’s church—

Ephesians 1:22

God put everything under his power and made him the head over everything for the church,

Ephesians 5:24

As the church yields to Christ, so you wives should yield to your husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

That secret is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

Then, even if I am delayed, you will know how to live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth.

1 Samuel 3:13

I told Eli I would punish his family always, because he knew his sons were evil. They acted without honor, but he did not stop them.