1 Timothy 3:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)

New Living Translation
For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?

English Standard Version
for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

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

New American Standard Bible
(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

NASB 1995
(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

NASB 1977
(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?);

Amplified Bible
(for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?).

Christian Standard Bible
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

Holman Christian Standard Bible
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God's church?)

Contemporary English Version
If they don't know how to control their own families, how can they look after God's people?

Good News Translation
For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
(If a man doesn't know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)

International Standard Version
For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

NET Bible
But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

New King James Version
(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

King James 2000 Bible
(For if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

New Heart English Bible
(but if someone does not know how to manage his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

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

American 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?)

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?)

A Faithful Version
(For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?)

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
(For if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For yf a man knowe not to rule his owne house, howe shall he care for the Churche of God?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
(But yf a man can not rule his owne house, how shal he care for the congregacion of God?)

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
(and if anyone has not known [how] to lead his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?)

Berean Literal Bible
but if one does not know how to manage the own household, how will he care for the church of God?--

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?)

Smith's Literal Translation
(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Literal Emphasis Translation
And if one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he care for the church of God?-

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Catholic Public Domain Version
For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God?

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if he does not know how to lead his own household well, how can he lead the Church of God?

Lamsa Bible
For if a man does not know how to rule well his own household, how shall he take care of the church of God?

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

Godbey New Testament
but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

Haweis New Testament
for if a man knoweth not how to order his own family, how shall he take proper care of the church of God?

Mace New Testament
for if a man is incapable of governing his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

Weymouth New Testament


Worrell New Testament
(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);

Worsley New Testament
(for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
















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