1 Timothy 3:5

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

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,[3] which he obtained with his own blood.[4]

1 Corinthians 10:32

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

Ephesians 1:22

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

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 truth.

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,[1] and he did not restrain them.