1 Timothy 3:5

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Why, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than Me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of My people Israel.’

1 Samuel 3:13

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to the Jews or the Greeks or the church of God,

Ephesians 1:22

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,

Ephesians 5:24

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?)

If

1 Samuel 2:29

1 Samuel 3:13

General references

1 Timothy 3:12

Bible References

If

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

General references

Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.