1 Timothy 3:5

New International Version

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)

Cross References

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—

Ephesians 1:22

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,

Ephesians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:32

This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God, and he failed to restrain them.