5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)


In Context

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.

1st Timothy 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5(For if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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?)

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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?)

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)