1 Timothy 3:5

5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.

1 Timothy 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 3:5

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.

1 Timothy 3:5 In-Context

3 not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes

4 and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste.

5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.

6 He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll

7 speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.