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1 Timothy 3:5
1 Timothy 3:5 is verse 5 of 1 Timothy chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
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?)
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1 Timothy 3:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
4 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
5 For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
7 Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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 2:30Therefore, 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 honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
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.
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.
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.
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.