5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)
5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)
2 Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.
5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
7 He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap.
3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
3:5But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
3:5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
3:5(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
3:5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
3:5(For if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
3:5(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
3:5(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)