1 Timothy 3:5
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(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
In other translations
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
Greek words
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Related verses
- 1 Samuel 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
- Ephesians 5:24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
- Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.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 5:32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
- Ephesians 1:22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- 1 Timothy 3:15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.in case I am delayed, so that 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.
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