1 Timothy 3:5 “For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can…”

1 Timothy 3:5

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

World English Bible

(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

American Standard Version

(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Geneva Bible 1599

For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

Darby Translation

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

Young's Literal Translation

(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

Bible in Basic English

(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

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Cross references

“if”

1 Samuel 3:13 1 Samuel 2:29 1 Samuel 2:30

1 Samuel 3:13 · BSB

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

1 Samuel 2:29 · BSB

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

1 Samuel 2:30 · BSB

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who hono…

“the church”

Ephesians 5:24 Acts 20:28 Ephesians 5:32 1 Timothy 3:15 Ephesians 1:22

Ephesians 5:24 · BSB

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

Acts 20:28 · BSB

Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Ephesians 5:32 · BSB

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

1 Timothy 3:15 · BSB

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Ephesians 1:22 · BSB

And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

Also

1 Corinthians 10:32

1 Corinthians 10:32 · BSB

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

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