1 Timothy 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

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1 Timothy 3:2

Acts 1:2

The pillar

The truth

Bible References

Know

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

till the day on which he was taken up, after he had, through the Holy Spirit, given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen.

The pillar

And I say to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

Verily, I say to you, my disciples, Whatever you bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

Much in every respect; but chiefly that the oracles of God were intrusted to them.

and knowing the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcision,

The truth

And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

for the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me.

Then Pilate said to him: You are a king, then? Jesus answered; You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I born, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might testify to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears my voice.

by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Thoughtless Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been plainly set forth crucified?

if, indeed, you have heard of him, and been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

in consequence of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,