“Take care of yourselves and all the flock of which the Ruach ha-Kodesh has made you overseers, to shepherd the community of God—which He obtained with the blood of His own.
1 Timothy 3:5 - Tree of Life Version (But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s community?) Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God? American Standard Version (1901) (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Common English Bible because if they don’t know how to manage their own household, how can they take care of God’s church? Catholic Public Domain Version For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? |
“Take care of yourselves and all the flock of which the Ruach ha-Kodesh has made you overseers, to shepherd the community of God—which He obtained with the blood of His own.
Give no offense either to Jewish or Greek people or to God’s community—
God placed all things under Messiah’s feet and appointed Him as head over all things for His community—
But as Messiah’s community is submitted to Messiah, so also the wives to their husbands in everything.
This mystery is great—but I am talking about Messiah and His community.
But if I delay, I write so you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God—which is the community of the living God, a pillar and foundation of truth.
For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity that he knew about, because his sons brought a curse on themselves yet he did not rebuke them.