1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Context
This verse from 1 Timothy Chapter 3 connects to 9 cross-references. The qualifications for overseers and deacons: the overseer must be above reproach, husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, hospitable, not a drunkard, not violent, not a lover of money, managing his household well. Similarly for deacons. The church is the …
Other Translations
(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
(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?)
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
Cross References
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, …
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because …
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should …
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy …
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, …
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the …