1 Timothy 3:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
In context
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.
5 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.
1 Timothy 3:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
- KJV King James Version
- (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
- WEB World English Bible
- (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
- ASV American Standard Version
- (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- (and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
- DBY Darby Translation
- (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
- WBS Webster Bible
- (For if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)