(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
For, х De (G1161)] - 'But.'
The church. Perhaps, 'a church.' [But Theou (G2316) being without the article, justifies its omission before the governing word, ekkleesias (G1577).] How shall he who cannot perform the less function perform the greater?