1 Timothy 3:5

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

Majority Standard Bible

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

4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

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Cross References

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.’

Acts 20:28Therefore keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of the Lord and 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 5:32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

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 →

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