1 Timothy 3:5
"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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- 1 Samuel 3:13
"For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 5:24
"Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
Read in chapter → - Acts 20:28
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 5:32
"This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."
Read in chapter → - 1 Timothy 3:15
"But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 1:22
"And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,"
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 2:29
"Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 10:32
"Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:"
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