1 Timothy 3:5
(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the congregation of God?)
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou may know how it is expedient to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.
1 Samuel 2:29-30
Why do ye trample my sacrifices and my offerings which I have commanded to be offered in my tabernacle and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knows of (because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them).
Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to feed the congregation of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Be without offense, neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the congregation of God;
Ephesians 1:22
And has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the congregation ,
Ephesians 5:24
Therefore, as the congregation is subject unto the Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:32
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the congregation .