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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It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

until the day in which He was taken up, after having given commandment, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom He chose;

The pillar

And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Verily, I say to you, whatsoever ye bind upon the earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatsoever ye loose on the earth shall have been loosed in Heaven.

Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

And, perceiving the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas right-hands of fellowship, that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

The truth

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

because 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 comes to the Father, except through Me.

Pilate, therefore, said to Him, "Art Thou, then, a King?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a King. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears My voice."

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

O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

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

because of the hope laid up for you in Heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,