1 Timothy 3:5 BSB — MannaFest

1 Timothy 3:5

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For if a man know not how to rule his own house,.... Which is an affair of less importance, and more easy to be done; not requiring so much resolution, prudence, care, and thought: how shall he take care of the church of God? preside over it, rule in it, provide for it, and see that everything is in its proper place, and done according to the will of God. The argument is from the lesser to the greater.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For if a man know not how to rule - This is a beautiful and striking argument. A church resembles a family. It is, indeed, larger, and there is a greater variety of dispositions in it than there is in a family. The authority of a minister of the gospel in a church is also less absolute than that of a father. But still there is a striking resemblance. The church is made up of an assemblage of brothers and sisters. They are banded together for the same purposes, and have a common object to aim at.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

For--Greek, "But." the church--rather, "a church" or congregation. How shall he who cannot perform the lesser function, perform the greater and more difficult?

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἰ	Ei	if	G1487 →
δέ	de	but	G1161 →
τις	tis	one	G5100 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
ἰδίου	idiou	his [own]	G2398 →
οἴκου	oikou	household	G3624 →
προστῆναι	prostēnai	to manage	G4291 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
οἶδεν,	oiden	knows,
πῶς	pōs	how	G4459 →
ἐκκλησίας	ekklēsias	[the] church	G1577 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
ἐπιμελήσεται;	epimelēsetai	will he care for?	G1959 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- 1 Peter 5:2–3
  Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
- 1 Timothy 4:16
  Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
- 1 Peter 1:18–19
  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- Isaiah 40:11
  He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- 1 Timothy 3:2
  An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Through
Ephesians 1:22
And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
leads to
- Colossians 1:18
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- Colossians 2:10
  And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25–27
  For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.