1 Timothy 3:5
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
Darby Translation
In The 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?)
In Context
4conducting his own house well, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;
6not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into [the] fault of the devil.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded [in my] habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
Acts 20:28Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.
Ephesians 1:22and has put all things under his feet, and gave him [to be] head over all things to the assembly,
Ephesians 5:32This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 3:2-8
Duties of Bishops and Deacons. ( a. d. 64.) 1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how… Read the whole commentary →