1 Timothy 3:5
World English Bible (WEB)
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
In context
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 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
- 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?)
- 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?
- 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?)