1 Timothy 3:5

but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I tarry, in order that you may know how it behooves you to deport yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Acts 20:28

Take heed to yourselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has placed you shepherds, to shepherdise the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Be ye without offence, both to Jews, and to Greeks, and to the church of God:

Ephesians 1:22

and has subordinated all things beneath his feet, and given him to be head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is submissive to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything.

Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery: but I speak in reference to Christ and 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 beautifully.