1 Timothy 3:5
For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.
Tyndale New Testament
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
4and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste.
6He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll speaker.
Cross References
Acts 20:28Take hede therfore vnto youre selves and to all the flocke wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears to rule the congregacion of God which he hath purchased with his bloud.
Ephesians 1:22and hath put all thynges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thynges ye heed of the congregacion
Ephesians 5:32This is a great secrete but I speake bitwene Christ and the congregacion.
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 →