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.

Know

1 Timothy 3:2

Acts 1:2

The pillar

The truth

Bible References

Know

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

until the day in which, after he had through the Holy Spirit given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

The pillar

And I on my part say to thee, that thou art Peter, a rock, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it.

Truly do I say to you, Whatever ye shall bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever ye shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

and when they knew 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

And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness, in him who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one cometh to the Father but through me.

Pilate therefore said to him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest what is true; for I am a king. For this end have I been born, and for this cause have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth listeneth to my voice.

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

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified.

if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;

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