1 Timothy 3:5

In 9 translations

BSB

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

KJV

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

WEB

(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

ASV

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

LSV

(and if anyone has not known [how] to lead his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?)

YLT

(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

(εἰ δέ τις τοῦ ἰδίου οἴκου προστῆναι οὐκ οἶδεν, πῶς ἐκκλησίας θεοῦ ἐπιμελήσεται;)

RP2018

Εἰ δέ τις τοῦ ἰδίου οἴκου προστῆναι οὐκ οἶδεν, πῶς ἐκκλησίας θεοῦ ἐπιμελήσεται;

TR-Boyd

Εἰ δέ τις τοῦ ἰδίου οἴκου προστῆναι οὐκ οἶδε, πῶς ἐκκλησίας Θεοῦ ἐπιμελήσεται;

SCR1894

ει δε τις του ιδιου οικου προστηναι ουκ οιδεν πως εκκλησιας θεου επιμελησεται

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• 1 Samuel 3:13I 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 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
• Acts 20:28Keep 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 mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
• 1 Timothy 3:15in 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.
• Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
• 1 Samuel 2:29–30Why 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 Corinthians 10:32Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

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