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1 Timothy 3:5

Parents and childrenServing others

3 not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

4 An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

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

6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

7 Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

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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?)
DARBY
(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
BLB
but if anyone does not know [how] to preside over [his] own household, how will he take care of the church of God?—
ÅB
- men hvis noen ikke vet å styre sitt eget hus, hvordan kan han da ha omsorg for Guds menighet? -
OTB
(for om noen ikke vet hvordan han skal lede sitt eget hus, hvordan kan han da ta seg av Guds menighet?);
B1930
- men hvis nogen ikke vet å styre sitt eget hus, hvorledes kan han da ha omsorg for Guds menighet? -

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 3:13

    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.

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  • Ephesians 5:24

    Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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  • Acts 20:28

    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.

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  • Ephesians 5:32

    This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

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  • Ephesians 1:22

    And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

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  • 1 Timothy 3:15

    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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