1 Timothy 3:5

WEB

⁵(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

KJV

⁵(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

BSB

⁵For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

FBV

⁵(For if a man doesn't know how to manage his own family, how can he manage God's church?)

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Extra References

1 Samuel 3:13

¹³For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Ephesians 5:24

²⁴But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

³²This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.

Acts 20:28

²⁸Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and^[+] God which he purchased with his own blood.

Ephesians 1:22

²²He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

1 Timothy 3:15

¹⁵but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

²⁹Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’ ³⁰“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

1 Corinthians 10:32

³²Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;