5(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)


In Context

2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:5(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)

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 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?)