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

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Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

The pillar

And I tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

"Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Much in every way! To begin with, they are entrusted with the oracles of God.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

The truth

By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: he was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and 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 except through me.

Pilate said to him, "You are a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say what I ama king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel