1 Timothy 3:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?”
A short, plain-language explanation of 1 Timothy 3:5 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
King James Version · Public Domain“(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Timothy 3:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:29Why 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 3:13I 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.
- Acts 20:28Keep 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
- Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
- Ephesians 5:32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
- 1 Timothy 3:15in 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).