Devine Scripture

1 Timothy 3:5

1 Timothy chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

KJV

King James Version · 1611

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Context

v.4one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

v.5This passage

v.6not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:24

    But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

  • 1 Timothy 3:15

    but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • Acts 20:28

    Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

  • 1 Samuel 3:13

    For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.

  • Ephesians 5:32

    This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

  • Ephesians 1:22

    and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,