1 Timothy 3:5

for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Acts 20:28

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no occasion for stumbling, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God;

Ephesians 1:22

and subjected all things under his feet, and made him head over all things for the church,

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so, also, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing.

Ephesians 5:32

Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church.

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(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.