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?
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if.

1 Samuel 2:29, 30
Why, 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 3:13
I told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

the church.

1 Timothy 3:15
so that, if I am delayed, 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 20:28
Keep 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 1:22
And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

Ephesians 5:24, 32
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God's church?)

International Standard Version
For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

NET Bible
But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if he does not know how to lead his own household well, how can he lead the Church of God?
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